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Physical location:

D63/7061, unit 749, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 63.09.01

Preferred Citation:

Theophilus Lightfoot to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1863-09-01. 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/1860-9/1863/63-09-01-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Park Street
Septr 1st 1863
Dear Sir
The memorial of certain inhabitants of South Yarra & Prahran praying for the reopening of the direct line of footway from the Park St entrance of the Botanic reserve to the Princes Bridge road,
1
See Residents of South Yarra, Toorak and Prahran to J. McCulloch, 13 July 1863 (in this edition as M63-07-13), and M to J. McCulloch, 18 July 1863 and note thereto.
having been intrusted to me for presentation to the Chief Secretary; I as their deputed representative for meeting you on the subject, agree to the line of road as arranged by us this morning.
2
On 18 August 1863, J. Perry wrote to T. Lightfoot: 'As you are fully acquainted with the wishes of the memorialists and are also well aware that they only desire what is perfectly reasonable in this matter, my friends & I will esteem it a favor if you will kindly act on our behalf to effect a satisfactory and final adjustment of it. Thanking you for the active part you have taken in furtherance of our mutual interests'. Lightfoot commented on 18 August: 'I propose that the gate leading through the Iron fence from the Park St entrance to the Botanical reserve be replaced; that a direct footway be made from it, to where the turnstile formerly stood — That the turnstile be replaced, & a footway or road be made from it to the brow of the hill leading into the new foot road from the Observatory & onto the road by the Immigrants home — this being done I think I may engage that the whole of the memorialists will keep to it & endeavour to prevent deviations'.
See also M to J. Moore, 4 September 1863.
I remain
&c
yours truly
T. Lightfoot
Dr Mueller