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Unit 4, pp. 602-3, VPRS 4025 Town Clerk's letter press copy books, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria. 58.12.01c

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Edmund FitzGibbon to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1858-12-01 [58.12.01c]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1850-9/1858/58-12-01c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Town Clerk's Office.
Town Hall, Melbourne
1st December 1858.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this days date
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M to E. FitzGibbon, 1 December 1858.
referring to the abuse of the permission given for persons to bathe in the river Yarra near to the Botanical Gardens before 6 o'clock […]
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two illegible words.
daily— I beg to apologise for not having sooner informed you in reply to your letter of the 29th ultimo
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M to E. FitzGibbon, 29 September 1858.
that the suggestion therein contained that notice boards should be erected stating the hours fixed for bathing could not be acted upon until the Bye Law of the City Council fixing the hours should not only be passed but come into legal operation.
I will this morning bring the subject under the special attention of the Public Works Committee of the City Council and trust to receive authority for the adoption of such measures as shall effectually check the nuisance to which you have called my attention.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient Servant
E. G. Fitzgibbon
Town Clerk.
Dr Mueller
Government Botanist
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See also M to E. FitzGibbon, 13 January 1859.