Ferdinand von Mueller

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There is a typescript copy of this letter at ML MSS.563/3, p. 651, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

March 23rd/91

The Baron,

Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c &c &c

My dear Baron,

Would you kindly send me a line to say that papers, pamphlets and your other publications which you have been good enough to send me from time to time were intended for myself and not for the Public Library of this Museum.

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i.e. the Australian Museum.

I have at your suggestion written on two or three occasions to the Govmt of Victoria Library &c asking for your valuable works on the Botany of the Colony, and sent several of mine in exchange. The Sect . here

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Sutherland Sinclair, Secretary to the Trustees of the Australian Museum.

thinks that some of them might have been intended for the Museum, such I am sure is not the case as I looked upon them as presents sent through your instrumentality in return for any slight services I may have been able to render to Botanical Science the Expedition to New Guinea, &c

We have no Botanical Library in the Museum — ours is entirely Zoological and Geological etc. although we may have many Botanical works of interest.

Please in sending me any of your publications in future to write my name in them — and do not address them to me as Curator or Director if they are intended for my private Botanical Library.