The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 7 ¶ /8/83 ¶ ¶ It was my intention, dear Capt Cooper, to write you a long letter by this mail, and send your Lady also the desired ferns; but I have been so much harrassed for many weeks past with ext...

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Physical location:

Ellwood Cooper file, Gledhill Library, Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Santa Barbara. 83.08.07

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellwood Cooper, 1883-08-07. 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/1880-9/1883/83-08-07-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

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It was my intention, dear Capt Cooper, to write you a long letter by this mail, and send your Lady also the desired ferns; but I have been so much harrassed for many weeks past with extra duties (Calcutta Exhibition

International Exhibition, Calcutta, 1883-4.

&c) beyond heavy routine-work, that I cannot do for you by this mail all that I wish to do for you.

Meanwhile I send you some seeds, which will add to the plants of ornament and leading interest in your garden. I found your large supply of your edition of my lectures &c

There are two editions of this work with identical title pages, one of 237 pages (E. Cooper (1876)), the other of 621 pages (E. Cooper (1876a)). The essays reprinted by Cooper can be found in B76.07.04-B76.07.07 and B76.13.11–B76.13.19. A copy of the shorter volume held in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, has an unsigned inscription in M's hand: 'Dem botanischen Garten der Universität Wien' [To the botanic garden of the University of Vienna] (URL: https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb11330056_00006.html , accessed 1 May 2019).

most useful for the maintenance of my literary interchanges. If you will let me know, at what price I could purchase still some more copies, I would make a remittance to you, but I could not think of accepting any more gratuitously.

I have distributed your valuable Essay on Olive-Culture

Probably E. Cooper (1882), of which there is a copy in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The pamphlet is mentioned in Weekly times (Melbourne), 10 March 1883, p. 2; South Australian weekly chronicle (Adelaide), 3 March 1883, p. 14; and Mercury (Hobart), 26 May 1883, p. 1.

in Australia very extensively.

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.