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Auckland Public Library, Grey Papers, GL M50(5) 65.09.14

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Grey, 1865-09-14. 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/1860-9/1865/65-09-14-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS is written 'Ladies' Leichardt (sic) Search Committee' letterhead paper
14/9/65.
Sir George.
Your Excellency all along has evinced such a friendly interest in the promotion of all that is good, as to encourage me to solicit your friendly aid in obtaining for some mediterranean Gardens a gift out of your flora.
I am anxious to decorate the gardens of South Europe and a few other parts of the globe with groves of New Zealand
Areca

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Palms and with our hardy Australian
Corypha

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&
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. I have a large supply of fresh seeds of the two latter palms secured, but want yet a quantity of fresh well matured
Areca

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seeds from your Islands. If it was possible to secure them through your Excellencys instrumentality I should feel so profoundly obliged, and if any of the New Zealand Garden establishments would secure the supply, I should most gladly reciprocate [with] whatever is here within my reach.
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See also M to G. Grey, 27 November 1865.
During the dreadful war period in your Excellencys territory
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Second Maori Wars, 1861-71.
the spirit of my horticultural friends has sunk & I really do not know any one to whom I could apply. Were it otherwise I should not have ventured to trifle with your Excellencys time in the manner I have done.
With profound veneration
your
Ferd. Mueller.