The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 29/5/69. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter, received this day, ¶ H. Read to M, 26 May 1869. ¶ ¶ I beg to inform you, that I will be ready to supply such plants as are still av...

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Letters received, box 14, Borough Council records, Warrnambool, Victoria. 69.05.29

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Read, 1869-05-29. 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/1860-9/1869/69-05-29-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

For a summary of this letter, see Warrnambool examiner, 11 June 1869, p. 2.

Melbourne bot Garden

29/5/69.

Sir

In reply to your letter, received this day,

H. Read to M, 26 May 1869.

I beg to inform you, that I will be ready to supply such plants as are still available here for the bot Garden of Warrnambool, altho' the supplies were distributed since the first of this month and are now in most instances exhausted. Be so good to appoint an agent in Melbourne to receive the plants, to provide for packing & transit, and please furnish him with a rough sketch of the ground, indicting what space has been actually prepared for the plants. I suppose the garden is goatprove and that water is available in the summer.

Very obediently

Ferd von Mueller

M's letter was read at a Council meeting held on 8 June 1869. Read was directed to write to T. Denney instructing him to receive the plants and forward them to Warrnambool (Minute book 7, p .52; Warrnambool examiner, 11 June 1869, p. 2).