Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M32, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.12.07

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1892-12-07. 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/1890-6/1892/92-12-07-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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MS is accompanied by an envelope addressed: 'On Her Majesty's Service. Miss Maria Henley Milawa, via Wangaratta . Government Botanist, Melbourne , 7/12/ 189 2'; and stamped: ''MELBOURNE 13 DE 7 92'. It bears the franked stamp: 'CHIEF SECRETARY — VICTORIA |'.
The back has an illegible stamp.
7/12/92
The water-plant, sent by you, dear Miss Henley, is the
Utricularia flexuosa

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it is very kind, to offer writing also to Miss [...].
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A piece has been cut out of the MS at this point.
It would encourage the young Lady still more, if you also wrote, to collect plants, even aquatics.
Always with regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller
The
Aldrovanda

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grows sometimes intermixed with this [...]
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What M wrote here has been cut out of the MS, the space corresponding to the missing text on the recto of the sheet.