Ferdinand von Mueller

12/9/64.

My dear Miss,

Let me express my thanks for your goodness of sending me the seeds from Queensland, which may produce some additional plants for our Conservatory. Since your juvenile friends are so eager to collect, pray would you ask them to pick the ripe seed-vessels of the different Eucalypti (or Gumtrees) of their neighbourhood and to shake out the seed after about a weeks mild drying; they would then be ready for transmission in a letter and would afford me the means of adding finally some species to an interesting plantation of these trees I have commenced in this garden near the large Conservatory. I will gladly in return send them any seeds they may desire from here.

I am glad to learn of your intended stay in Melbourne or St Kilda, and trust you will enjoy the social entertainments, the company of your friends & the concerts & theater &c, which must be an agreable change after your comparative stay in solitude.

I hope the translation of Schiller, as far as it goes (unfortunately excluding his magnific poems) will be pleasant to you to read.

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Edition not identified.

The language is so lofty and noble.

Trusting that you enjoy the blessing of good health I remain, dear Miss, your

The 4th vol. of the Fragmenta will only published at the end of the year, when, should I live, I will not fail to send it to you. My little work on the Chatham plants

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The final part of vol. 4 of M's Fragmenta, containing the index &c., was B64.13.03, issued late in the year. The volume was ‘in the binder’s hand’ in early January 1885 (see M to R. Gunn, 6 January 1865) and was reviewed in Sydney morning herald, 16 February 1865, p. 3.

is almost completed