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RB MSS M32, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.12.08
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Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1893-12-08. 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/1890-6/1893/93-12-08-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026
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MS black-edged; M's nephew, George Doughty, died on 19 November 1893.
Since some time I owe you a letter, dear Miss Henley, and I am not even sure, whether
I acknowledged with due gratitude your kind sending again this spring to the show
of native flowers I am thrown last month in deep mourning, which accounts also for
my correspondence being much in arrear. I seem to have mislaid the only specimen of
the native flower to which you refer, but will afford you information, when it turns
up again.
The enclosed is the true Edelweiss, the
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With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd von Mueller