Document information

Physical location:

Box 244/3, Shillinglaw papers, La Trobe Australian manuscripts collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 77.09.28

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1877-09-28. 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/1870-9/1877/77-09-28-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

Friday
1
Letter dated to 28 September, the Friday before Thursday 4 October when M was planning to leave for WA (see M to G. Berry, 26 September 1877).
For the sake of my health, dear Mr Shillinglaw, I intend to do a few weeks field-work and shall be away at the middle of next week. Could I revise before any notes biographically concerning me?
2
Shillinglaw was preparing biographical notes for the forthcoming work, Men of the time; see M to J. Shillinglaw, September 1877 (in this edition as 77-09-00a).
I read with great interest in the "Sydney mail" your notes on the disinterment of the long buried documents emanating from Mr Grimes's discoveries.
3
The Sydney m ail, 22 September 1877, p. 376, carried a report of Shillinglaw's discovery in the colonial archives in Sydney of Charles Grimes's journal and chart of his exploration of Port Phillip Bay and the lower reaches of the Yarra River in 1803. The journal is included in Shillinglaw (1879), pp. 15-30.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.