Document information

Physical location:

P67/474, unit 381, VPRS 3991 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria. 66.10.01

Preferred Citation:

L. Petersen to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-10-01. 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/1860-9/1866/66-10-01-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
MS is annotated 'No 44' of 74 receipts covering materials supplied for the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7, for which M was one of the Commissioners.
Botan. Gard. 1.10/66
Received from Dr F. Mueller one pound seven shillings for eighteen days labor, at 1/6 pr day assisting carpenter in planing wood specimens for the Exhibition
2
The low rate of pay indicates that Petersen was a junior, probably a son of the carpenter Henry Petersen who was preparing timber specimens for the Exhibition; see H. Petersen to M, 1 October 1866 (in this edition as 66-10-01a), and M's reference, some years later, to Henry Petersen's having children who were by then adults (M to J. McCulloch, 3 October 1870).
L. Petersen
£1.7.0