The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Sunday. ¶ ¶ I am sending you, dear friend, a just arrived reprint of the journal of Forrest's last journey, ¶ Presumably J. Forrest (1875a). ¶ ¶ thinking that it will interest you. But will you be s...

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Physical location:

MS papers 37, no 622, folder 213, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. 75.00.00

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius von Haast, 1875. 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/1870-9/1875/75-00-00-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026

MS is undated; the reference to Haast's wife indicates that it was written after mid-April 1875 (see n. 4).

Sonntag.

Ich sende Ihnen, bester Freund, einen eben angekommenen Abdruck des Journals von Forrest's letzter Reise, denkend dass selbiges Sie interessiren wird. Wollen Sie es mir freundlich vor dem Abgang der Post (nach Europa) zurück senden, da ich diesen Druck an Petermann senden möchte, und nur das eine Exemplar erhielt.

Lassen Sie mich hoffen dass Ihre Gemahlin nun ganz erstarken wird u sich in Ihrer Umgebung auch wieder geistig ermannet.

Stets Ihr

Ferd von Mueller

Sunday.

I am sending you, dear friend, a just arrived reprint of the journal of Forrest's last journey,

Presumably J. Forrest (1875a).

thinking that it will interest you. But will you be so kind as to return it to me before the next mail (to Europe), as I should like to send this publication to Petermann,

There is no mention in the surviving correspondence of M's sending such a publication to Petermann.

and only received the one copy.

Let me hope that your wife will now get her strength back completely and in your own surroundings will also be able to pull herself together mentally.

Mary Haast had a severe nervous breakdown following the birth of her fourth son, Julius Hermann, in December 1873 (H. F. von Haast (1948), p. 682), and in October 1874 went to stay with her parents in Victoria, where her father, Edward Dobson, was engineer for the construction of the Geelong Waterworks. Julius Haast arrived in Melbourne aboard Albion on 26 February 1875 to join his wife (Argus, 27 February 1875, p. 6) and he and Mary returned to New Zealand on Tararua, which cleared out of Melbourne on 6 April 1875 (Argus, 10 April 1875, p. 14) and arrived at Lyttelton on 15 April 1875 (Globe (Christchurch), 15 April 1875, p. 2).

Always your

Ferd. von Mueller.