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Physical location:

F86/8274, unit 272, VPRS 3992 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 86.08.21a

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1886-08-21 [86.08.21a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-08-21a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Saturday
I think it best right, dear Mr Wilson, that I should take officially notice of the remarks, made against the "Key" by a Correspondent of the Argus of this day;
1
Argus, Saturday 21 August 1886, p. 5.
and I should be very much obliged if you would beg of our honorable Chief, that this explanation of mine
2
See M to A. Deakin, 21 August 1886.
may be allowed to go to the Argus for publication. I may remark, that a very appreciative reference to this part of the Key appeared in the London Gardeners Chronicle lately.
3
Gardeners' Chronicle, 12 June 1886, p. 760: 'This little book, while unpretending in appearance, will prove one of the most generally useful of the Baron's publications, and one that no one but himself could have produced so successfully'.
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Excuse, that the letter was no
4
not?
rewritten; I am so busy for the outgoing P & O mail.