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91.00.00i

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Amie Stirling, 1891 [91.00.00i]. 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/1890-6/1891/91-00-00i-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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Letter not found. For the text given here, see the image of the letter published in A. Stirling (1980), p. 27. Stirling collected plants for M in the 1890s, when she was a young girl (cf. M to A. Stirling, 15 November 1892); the earliest dated specimen at MEL is 1891 when she would have been 11 years old, and M's letter is therefore dated to 1891 as the earliest likely date it would have been written.
Best thanks, dear Miss Stirling, for sending me such a nice picture of yours
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yourself? Word as transcribed ends at the extreme edge of the printed image and a continuation may have been cut off in the reproduction.
It is as if [I]
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editorial addition — word omitted by M.
saw you personally, which pleasure I shall doubtless have some day. Let your brothers get you with a rake all the floating waterweeds there also.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.