Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne botanic Garden,

29/6/63

My dear Euphemia.

I was most agreably surprised in receiving the beautiful médaillon with your dear portrait,

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Published in Regardfully yours, vol. 2, p. 181.

which you so kindly sent me as a token of your love and shall as such honor and preserve it. Since you did not forget about my birthday it will be but right that I should celebrate it, which indeed has not taken place ever since my boyhood, as I was always then alone, and did not wish that any half-stranger should know it was a festival-day to myself. I will therefore come and spend with you the evening to morrow and part of the afternoon. Accept meanwhile my cordial thank for your kind and tender feelings towards me evinced in your gift and for your prayers and wishes for me, which I with ardour return.