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RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 70.04.15

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George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-04-15. 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/1870-9/1870/70-04-15-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.
April 15 /70
My dear Sir
I write a few lines in great haste being overwhelmed with press of matter at this time, to say that I have sent by this mail 8 sheets of the 5th vol. of Flora Australiensis (D to L)
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, sheets D-L (i.e. pp. 33-160).
— four more are in type but I have not yet the clean proofs.
A box was also sent off last week from Kew with
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except some half a dozen parcels which would not go into the box — the bill of lading will probably have been sent to you direct as I have not had it
What with keeping up to the printer so as to get the volume out before I leave town in the summer — the preparation of my Anniversary Address
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To the Linnean Society of London, delivered every year in May.
which always takes up more time than one would suppose — and the days rest I am obliged to take now and then on account of my troublesome sciatica (now I hope really getting better) I have but very little courage for correspondence.
Yours very sincerely
George Bentham
Dr Ferd Mueller C M G
Pray do not sent any more boxes of specimens till I say I shall be ready for them.