Document information

Physical location:

Letter book 2, no. 84, Melbourne General Cemetery. 72.05.10

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Albert Purchas, 1872-05-10. 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/1870-9/1872/72-05-10-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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MS annotation by Purchas: 'Read 12-6-72 A.P.'.
Melbourne bot. Garden
10/5/72
It will afford me much pleasure, dear Major Purchas, to supply again this season plants to the general Cemetery so far as the reduced means of my Department admit of it.
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See A. Purchas to M, 9 May 1872, and A. Purchas to M, 13 June 1872.
Will you kindly let me know for how many trees and how many shrubs the ground is actually prepared and send for the plants any morning at 9 o'clock.
your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller