The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/8/88 ¶ ¶ I write this still from the bed, ¶ dear Madam and thus left your sympathetic letter ¶ so long unanswered. The wounds on my head are healed, but the foot still requires rest. It was so k...

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Physical location:

Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 88.08.14

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Amy Beal, 1888-08-14. 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/1880-9/1888/88-08-14-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

14/8/88

I write this still from the bed,

On 31 July 1888 M fell while alighting from a tram and injured his face and left knee-cap (Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch), part II, vol. vi, p. 13); see also M to T. Wilson, 1 August 1888.

dear Madam and thus left your sympathetic letter

Letter not found.

so long unanswered. The wounds on my head are healed, but the foot still requires rest. It was so kind of you all to think of me with so much friendliness.

See also M to A. Beal, 21 November 1888 (in this edition as 88-11-21a).

A new work on Acacias of Australia has appeared just now, 13 decades with 130 plates.

B87.13.04 [Decades 1-7], B88.13.01 [Decades 8-13].

— I have no doubt, if Miss Beal, as hon. Secr of your local Library,

i.e. at Lorne, Vic.

did write to the hon the Premier for a copy, it would be granted. In a few weeks will also appear the completing volume of the "Key to the System of Victorian plants"

B88.11.02.

and the 7th Edition of the "Select plants (revised and enlarged),

B88.12.01.

which should prove acceptable also there.

With regardful your

Ferd. von Mueller

You are sure to come when the weather gets warmer to the Exhibition.

Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888-9.

Excuse me for writing no more; it is so difficult for me yet.