Document information

Physical location:

Box 251/3, Shillinglaw papers, La Trobe Australian manuscripts collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 88.01.21

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1888-01-21. 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/1880-9/1888/88-01-21-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

21/1/88.
This (Saturday) afternoon, dear Mr Shillinglaw, the German Club holds it annual festival in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. If you will do us the honor of sharing in the festival, I will be happy to introduce you to my compatriots.
The entrance to the garden is at the Railway station of Burnley between Richmond and Hawthorn.
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Suburbs of Melbourne.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller
Though I feel weak and poorly I will go for an hour or two, as the place is so near.