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V70/5082,unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria. 71.10.03aPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1871-10-03 [71.10.03a]. 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/1870-9/1871/71-10-03a-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026
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3/10/71.
The byefollowing is the rest of the correspondence, dear Mr Odgers, concerning the
Gardener W. Smith. As these papers seemed to me, not to come under those of the date,
desired by you, I kept them here; nor do I like that they should injure this man in
any new engagement of his services, more particularly as he has a wife and child to
support.
I have reason to believe, that this man could obtain some small engagement in the
new forest department, and I shall gladly
wait a few weeks
with the arrangements for a new collector, if the transfer of the man Smith to an
other place could be effected meanwhile. Mr Grant knows him and possibly may take
some interest in him.
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Presumably James Grant, former President of the Board of Land and Works and Commissioner
of Crown Lands and Survey, who M reported had once suggested that Smith might be compensated under the Civil
Service regulations (M to J. McCulloch, 23 April 1870). See also M to C. Duffy, 8 July 1871 (in this edition as 71-07-08b), and M to C. Duffy, 6 December 1871.
With kind regards
Ferd. von Mueller