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Box 23/1, Shillinglaw papers, La Trobe Australian manuscripts collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 92.12.10aPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1892-12-10 [92.12.10a]. 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/1890-6/1892/92-12-10a-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026
10/12/92
Your kind call, dear Mr Shillinglaw, reminds me of my remissness in not having answered
yet your last kind letter; but I have been so over-taxed in my strenght for many weeks
past, that I hardly had the courage, to put my pen to paper on unofficial subjects.
Let me however say, that I at once, when asked by you, sent a lithogram to your friend,
regarding it an honor, to be asked, to do so.
Let me mention, that in the print of the Columbus-festival ample extracts occur from
your letter concerning the picture furnished by you. The part of our volume, containing
the records of the fête will soon appear.
1
An account of the festival organized by the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical
Society of Australasia to mark the fourth centenary of Columbus's discovery of America
was published in the Society's Transactions
, vol. 10 (1893), pp. 101-17.
As you move so much about people, and are now free of office-care, — kindly try, to
get some new members F.R.G.S.A., the annual expense being only £1, and the prosperity
of the colony being reawakening.
Always regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller