Ferdinand von Mueller

24/7/84

Let me thank you, dear Mr Archer, for the sympathy expressed in your kind letter of yesterday.

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I feel a little better, but as I have such a severe cough, I dare not go out til spring-warmth sets in in Sept.

Having never been in England, I could on no occasion attend at the L.S.

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Linnean Society, London. Archer was elected a Fellow on 5 November 1874 (see postscript dated 25 March 1874 to M to G. Bentham, 21 March 1874). Archer's name last appeared on the 'Fellows list' for 1882; he evidently had ceased to pay his subscription after the failure of the life assurance company he had formed after his retrenchment as one of the senior Victorian public servants who lost their positions in the budgetary crisis of 'Black Wednesday', 8 January 1878 (ADB).

personally, and am quite unacquainted with their rules for cases such as yours; but I sincerely hope, that your prospects will brighten again, and your great experience and talent be rendered available again in a permanent way. The man, who persuaded you to leave the Department, which was so particularly your own (the same man who so deeply has injured me)

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ought to have come to your aid.

I often exchange letters or prints with Sir Thomas Campbell,

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Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, managing editor of The West Australian newspaper.

and only wrote to the Baronet by last mail.

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Your kind attention and that of your Lady to Miss Campbell must be very gratifying to her, and the change from the solitude in Sydney be beneficient to her health.