Document information

Physical location:

A249 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney. M53.10.01

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Preferred Citation:

Charles La Trobe to Ronald Gunn, 1853-10-01 [M53.10.01]. 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/mentions/selected/M53-10-01-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Jolimont
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La Trobe's residence in East Melbourne.
1 October 1853
My dear Gunn
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Material unrelated to M.
You shall have Dr Müllers report when printed. By the bye, the leaves of the were brought to me the other day by our Bot. Garden overseer
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John Dallachy.
from Mt Disappointment to the NE of Melbourne. I think I told you that Müller had found it on Wilson's Promontory. Some of his recent discoveries in the higher ranges, the Devils River, or Delatite Country, are really beautiful.
Yours truly
C. J. Latrobe