Document information

Physical location:

Unit 5, VPRS 927, Papers re Exhibitions, Letters re exhibits in Fine Arts Exhibition 1869, Public Record Office, Victoria. 69.03.23

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Tulk, 1869-03-23. 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/1860-9/1869/69-03-23-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melb. bot Garden
23/3/69.
It will afford me much pleasure, dear Mr Tulk, to respond to the request of the trustees of the Library and Art Museum, to send my Knight insignia of the Orders of which I am a member to the forth coming art exhibition,
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The Art Treasures Exhibition, 'a vast variety of pictures, curiosities, and articles of vertu, lent by the owners to the Trustees of the Public Library', opened on 29 March 1869 and closed in mid-year.
if a ticket can be placed along with these decorations stating they they have been exhibited by special request.
Should, what is not likely, an occasion arise for my using one or more of these insignia, I must stipulate for the permission to remove such for a day.
It appears to me not necessary to bring these decorations until the Exhibition actually shall be opened. If for any other orders-insignia a case will be provided by the trustees, then mine might be provided in the same way. Otherwise I shall be placed under the special necessity of having a case made. I enclose, as required, a list of those of my decorations,
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List not found.
which at present are available for the exhibition.
With much regards
Ferd. von Mueller, M.D.
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MS annotation probably by Tulk: 'From Doctor von Mueller Ansered Case will be provided and orders can be removed for any ceremony'. Tulk's letter to M not found.