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Physical location:

PXD 38-2, A. Walker, 'Flora of NSW', vol. 8, pp. 113-14, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 96.04.17

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1896-04-17. 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/1890-6/1896/96-04-17-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Dictated
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MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M.
Melbourne 17-4-96.
This letter is dictated to you dear Miss Walker as I do not feel well and as this is at a very late hour of a very buissy day, but I do not wish to keep you longer waiting for reply after your great kindness in sending me the naturally aroma[tic] jam of the fruit of
Eugenia Smithy

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Eugenia smithii.
I had no idea that such an excellent preserve could be made from the fruits of this tree. This Eugenia real[...] Eastern Gippsland where I discovered in 1854 already. You must kindly excuse me if I not today already report on the redflowering
Eucalyptus

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, I laid your excellent drawing aside whilst engaged at pressing work of The Department here and cannot lay my hand on it this late hour of the day;
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See M to A. Walker, 3 June 1896.
my engagements have been so overwhelming in the service that I have not been able for a long time to the sad house of mourning of our generous friends at Brighton,
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Mrs Thomas Anne Cole and her surviving daughter Margaret Morison Cole, the family being referred to at this period as 'Ward-Cole'. The second daughter in the family, Agnes, had died on 20 October 1895 (Argus, 22 October 1895, p. 1).
but hope soon to make a call. I have entered a note for the tenth edition on my volume of "Select Plants"
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B95.08.04 was the final edition.
concerning your aromatic sacarine preserve of the Eugenia fruit under your honored name.
Trusting you are happy and well
regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller