The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 21/4/69 ¶ ¶ Aware, dear Prof. Asa Gray, that you are staying now at Kew, ¶ I beg to ask, whether my large box with museum plants and some seeds for you has safely arrived. Perhaps in your prolonged ...

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Gray Herbarium Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 69.04.21

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1869-04-21. 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/1860-9/1869/69-04-21-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

21/4/69

Aware, dear Prof. Asa Gray, that you are staying now at Kew,

Gray was in Europe, mostly based at Kew, for a year from September 1868.

I beg to ask, whether my large box with museum plants and some seeds for you has safely arrived. Perhaps in your prolonged stay from home, it might be desirable, that some one of your friends would unpack the case, and not allow the seeds to loose their vitality.

I have quite a little armee

army - M used the German spelling.

of young American Oaks

Many of these American oaks can still be found on the Oak Lawn in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.

& Walnuts now through your generosity & circumspectness.

With highest regards

Ferd. von Mueller.