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66.05.28cPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Thwaites, 1866-05-28 [66.05.28c]. 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/1860-9/1866/66-05-28c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
1
Letter not found. The quotation used here is given in G. Thwaites to J. Hooker, 24
June 1866 (RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. 162, ff. 261-2). Thwaites introduced
the quotation with 'I received a letter from Mueller a few days ago, dated 28th of
May, in which he writes ...'. Hooker passed on the news to Henry Barkly, then Governor
of Mauritius: 'I hear through Thwaites of Ceylon that poor Mueller is very ill', postscript
to J. Hooker to H. Barkly, 18 August 1866 (RBG Kew, archives, Letters from Joseph
Hooker vol. Ada-Bar, ff. 161-2).
I am ill in and out of the bed. I trust it will not be the last letter you may get
from me. [...]
2
Unknown amount of text missing. Following the quotation Thwaites wrote: 'So I fear
the poor fellow must be very unwell. I was so grieved that the unexpected very early
arrival of the Suez Mail balked me of writing to him in reply, as I am usually able
to do the day I receive a letter from him & this is the first break in the regularity
of our correspondence.'
M complained of ill-health in other letters of this period: see, for example, M to
J. McCulloch, 10 March 1866 (in this edition as 66-03-10a), and M to E. Henderson, 30 June 1866.