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Am 27/1, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 93.04.24

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1893-04-24. 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/1890-6/1893/93-04-24-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

24/4/93.
I think, dear Miss Walker, that the letter, sent by me to Miss Cole,
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See M. Ward-Cole to M, 21 April 1893.
will be sufficient recommendation for your purposes. If I am asked by Dr Cox
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Probably J. C. Cox.
or any one else about the value of your collections, I can follow up further the recommendation. The picture of your Granduncle
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Gregory Blaxland; Annie's grandfather was Blaxland’s brother, John.
and his Companions crossing the Blue Mountains is most impressive. Will you on your return kindly look, whether the fringe flowered Grass-Lily,
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from the Blue Mountains has the leaves so short and broad, as depicted by you. Here the leaves are always much longer and narrower. Possibly 2 species have been confused under that name. In that case the seeds of the two would likely also be different. In the haste a wrong species-name was put to the Ptilotus; it is not P. obovatus but P. exaltatus (Nees). I obtained several additional notes from the last 3 parcels, and made several corrections of names thereon.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller
Miss Anna Walker
Cunningham was never in New Guinea or the Solomon Island
I hope you will honor me with letters from N.S.W.