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Sammlung Perthes Archiv,SPA ARCHPGM328,Forschungsbibliothek Gotha der Universität Erfurt. 77.05.11

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Charles Fooks to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-05-11. 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/1870-9/1877/77-05-11-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

Normanton
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Qld.
May 11, 1877
Baron von Mueller
C.M.G. F.R.S
Dear Sir
I am in receipt of your two letters of the 5th Feby and 13th March.
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Letters not found.
I shall be happy to do what I can for you in the way of collecting botanical Specimens, you may also be sure that I shall always be on the look-out for any trace of Leichardt
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i.e. Leichhardt.
that may possibly exist.
My course will probably lie between the 20th and 16th degrees of latitude, and I shall most likely leave the O'Shannessy River at about the 19th degree of latitude and will call either at Tenants Creek, Powells Creek or Daly Waters telegraph Stations
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All in NT.
Should you take the field this year and we happen to be on the telegraph line at the same time, we might enter into communication. as minerals will form the principal object of the Expedition,
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The expedition may not have taken place. One had been planned: 'There seems to be some chance of the Western boundary of the district being prospected for minerals this wet season, the South Australian Government having very generously offered a large supply of rations to be delivered at any required point along the overland telegraph line. It is to be hoped that the expedition which was planned some time since will not fall through, as there appears every likelihood of gold being found in the north-western hills, which are off-shoots of the Cloncurry ranges.' ('Carpentaria [From our own correspondent] Normanton', Brisbane courier , 13 October 1877, p. 7 ) . No account of the planned expedition having started has been found.
I shall stick as much as possible to the dividing water sheds —
I intend leaving this place in September or October
I am dear Sir
Yours very truly
C. S. Fooks