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A39 Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Vic. Branch) papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 86.01.18Preferred Citation:
Julian Thomas to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1886-01-18. 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/1880-9/1886/86-01-18-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
MEMORANDUM.
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Melbourne Address
yorick club
From "The Vagabond,"
Argus
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Jany 18 1886
To Baron Von Mueller K.C.M.G
&c &c
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My dear Baron,
I am very sorry that owing to an accident which has confined me to the house for three
weeks I shall be unable to be present at the meeting of the Geographical Society this
evening.
As I had the misfortune to write Captain Everill's obituary
I ought to join with the other members of our Society in congratulating him on his
return
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Everill commanded Bonito in an expedition up the Fly River in New Guinea in 1885. In November of that year,
alarming reports were received that the entire party had been killed by the natives,
but these proved to be unfounded and the expedition arrived safely back in Brisbane
on 29 November. The initial reports, however, prompted a long article by Thomas, under
his pseudonym 'The Vagabond', in the Argus, 9 November 1885, p. 6 (reprinted in the Australasian, 14 November 1885, supp., p. 1).
I am my dear Baron
Right truly yours
Julian Thomas