Document information

Physical location:

MS 10084, box 144, Pasco papers, Latrobe Australian Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 92.09.21

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Emily Pasco, 1892-09-21. 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/1890-6/1892/92-09-21-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

21/9/92
Let me thank you, dear Miss Pasco, for sending me your kind fathers letter
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Letter not found.
on desire of your respected mother. I should not think it likely, that the Dundee Whaling-Steamers will proceed so far east as Australia; it is more likely, that they will keep to American meridians. Your father wrote me a day earlier from Ayr, Scotland
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Letter not found. Crawford Pasco, chairman of the Antarctic Exploration Committee, was pursuing exploration possibilities while visiting Europe.
— telling me, that we here cannot any more reckon on cooperation in Sweden for antarctic exploration, but that the 3 Whalers were to come from Dundee. I presume, it will be unlikely, that any letter of mine will reach your father still in Britain. If so, kindly tell me, in order that I may write by next mail.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller