Document information

Physical location:

[N]61/261, unit 7, p. 403, VPRS 4025/P Town Clerk's letter books, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria. 61.05.31

Preferred Citation:

Edmund FitzGibbon to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-05-31. 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/1860-9/1861/61-05-31-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Town Hall, Melbourne
31st May 1861
My dear Sir
I will bring [both] the matters to which your note of yesterday refers
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M to E. FitzGibbon, 30 May 1861.
under the notice of the proper Committees and will apprise you of the result as soon as possible.
In the matter of of the tree guards especially I should have expected but little difficulty only that we are just at present miserably crippled in respect to pecuniary resources
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M's letter was read at a meeting of the Melbourne City Council Public Works Committee on 4 June 1861. The Town Clerk was instructed to reply 'that such labor cannot be supplied by the council' (Unit 4, p. 247, VPRS 4037, Public Record Office, Victoria).
Yours very faithfully
E. G. FitzGibbon
Town Clerk
Dr. F. Mueller