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Physical location:

2/137/5, Archer papers, University of Melbourne Archives. 70.10.01

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Henry Archer, 1870-10-01. 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/1870-9/1870/70-10-01-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

1/10/70.
I take the liberty, dear Mr Archer, to send the two enclosed letters from Mr Dallachy for your own perusal,
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Letters not found.
so that you may see, whether he is contented with his lot or shows reason of complaint. I can send you a host of letters written by the old Gentleman in the same strain but these two came yesterday, as the envelopes show.
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M was questioned on Dallachy's role and M's treatment of him by the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of the Public Service and working of the Civil Service Act, when he was examined on 4 September 1870 (see questions 1236 to 1249, 'Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the public service’, in Victoria. Parliamentary Papers. Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, 1873, vol. 2 (No. 10), p. 42.
I will send old Mr Dallachy also one of the printed forms of the Civil Service Commission,
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For the forms, see Return No. 1 in Appendix E to the Royal Commission report.
but it will take at the least two months before they will be here back again and perhaps we have to wait double the time, as there is no regular communication to Rockingham's Bay.
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Qld.
A number of my employees have put their heads together about filling up the printed forms. So the commission cannot receive the answers from all of my men as independent individual expressions of opinion.
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John Waters [i.e. Watters], representing 'all the workmen in the gardens' (question 11258) was examined on 7 June 1872 (p. 419), and requested that the workmen 'may be placed upon the schedule and recognised as public servants' (question 11259).
Your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller