The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 21/6/79. ¶ ¶ It will afford me much pleasure dear Mr Shillinglaw, to visit you some evening, to participate in your hospitality and to look over the ¶ material for your important opus ¶ . ¶ With reg...

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Physical location:

Box 244/1 Shillinglaw papers, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 79.06.21a

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1879-06-21 [79.06.21a]. 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/1870-9/1879/79-06-21a-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

21/6/79.

It will afford me much pleasure dear Mr Shillinglaw, to visit you some evening, to participate in your hospitality and to look over the material for your important opus .

Shillinglaw was working on a biography of Matthew Flinders that was never published.

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.

I am engaged every evening likely for 2 weeks, so I will name the day of my visit here after