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My Dear Buckland

I am very much out of sorts; and I have a large party of strangers on my hands who after seeing the lions are to dine with me. But I have just time to say that I shall be happy to subscribe to the work you mention and that I will show your elegant Epistle among my friends. I hope you had my note of yesterday about [Ansted?]
My best regards to Mrs Buckland and my love to all the young ones

Yours ever

A Sedgewick
Cambridge
March 3rd 1840

London
Thursday Morng

My dear Buckland

I am passing thro Town on my way to Cambridge and have just stumbled on a park. If my Servant passed thro' Oxford and remembered to call for my Hat good - But if not pray send the said Hat to the office of the Cambridge [?] in order that it may be conveyed with the least delay to my head quarters in Trin. Coll. An old white Beaver is the present covering of my unacademical nob. and it will cut a sorry figure with a gown My coat is out of elbows and my [?] (made by the way by the fair hands of Mrs. B) is without any lining so I have need to call in all my reserves. My love to Eva and the rest of your squadron, my best regards to Madame

Yours ever

A Sedgewick

Postmark Cambridge
Nov 24 1833
Sunday Evening

Revd Dr Buckland
Christ Church
Oxford

Dear Buckland

I have just time before the Post shuts to tell you that a Professorship of Ecology at Dublin is vacant and that Phillips of York is in the field. Can you contrive to write to any of your Dublin friends to give him a [shove?] It will be an admirable thing to get so good an English ecologist at Dublin. It is impossible to find in the British Isles another candidate who is half so good. How are you all at Oxford - Madam, Frank, my daughter Eve etc etc

Yours always

A Sedgewick

Can you make a party to suggest a motion?

Trinity Coll.
Sunday
May 2

Postmarked J June 1835

My dear Buckland

Next Thursday will suit me very well, and I shall be happy to meet you and Lyell at the ordnance office at any hour that may be finally fixed on. On Wednesday I hope to have a paper on the Whitehaven Coalfield with some general remarks on the relations of the [Parton-Linston?] belt wh. runs to Egremont [?] foot of Staverson. The paper cannot be finished in the [?] but we can give the general ]?] and can have a page of details for the meeting of the October [?]. I shall rejoice to see Mrs Buckland and your children. I think it is about two years since I have shaken her by the hand. The Yorkshire [election?], a law suit and a bad cold has plagued me almost to death. The cold is [?] now that the wind blows from a quarter within two points of South. I heard from Langham a day or two since. William is doing very well [?] as and if God spare his health will work his way [?] to a Fellowship at Trin. Coll. Prey excuse this scrap of paper. It is the best I have.

Yours ever

A. Sedgewick

To Dr. Buckland
Salopian Coffee House
Charing Cross
London

30 Ap 1830

My dear Buckland

I have two Germans on my hands, and the university inspectors in my Museum [?] my hands wh. are as full as they will can be but I have just time to say that I shall endeavour to be in Town and that I shall be most happy to meet you at the Salopian. Of course our Oxford plan is knocked on the head or rather it never came to a head. We do not however give up hope of visiting you and I shall mention to my friends your most hospitable intentions but I don't think it will do for us to quarter our hungry corps upon you. But enough of this at present.

Yours ever

A. Sedgewick

Dear Buckland

The bearer Mr Rifaud has been spending about ? Days in Cambridge among other things seeking subscriptions for his great work on the natural history of [the] Antiquities of Egypt and Nubia. I dare say to have seen a few [?] of his work and [?] [rapport?] of it by [?] Of the [Parisien?] [?]. His collection of drawings is truly astonishing, they are the wealth of twenty two years almost [?] labour. His very body is no small [curiosity] as it bears the mark of about 17 wounds from the spears of [Arabs?]. Which seem to have been stuck in his body to [?] as arrow heads seen in the thighs of the [?] [?]. I have taken the liberty of giving him a letter to you believing that you will be delighted to [?] his drawings, be happy to make his signature, to put him on the [?] of knowing some of your librarians and other book buying people. Pray what are you doing at Oxford about Carrier's monument [?] me a letter from [Pentland?] on the subject but the stupid Irishman then gives me no address. Pray do you know if I am [?] to him?
Pray excuse writing and believe me
Yours Ever
Sedgewick

[?] Coll Nov 13 18-

P.S. Mr Rifaud is accompanied by Mr [Dorling?] and Mrs [?] Who acts as interpreter for Mr. R speaks English no better than a creaking door.

Inked Note
Grandfather's Epitaph
by Dr. Whately
Arch of Dublin

Harold Bompas Esqre
121 Westbourne Terrace
W.2

EPITAPH
on Dr. Buckland

Mourn Ammonites mourn, o'er his funeral urn
Whose neck ye will grace no more
Gneiss, Granite and Slate, he settled your date
And this ye must now deplore

Weep caverns weep with infiltering drip
Your recesses he'll cease to explore;
For Mineral veins and Organic remains
No stratum again will he bore

His wit shone like Chrystal, his knowledge profound
From Gravel to Granite descended,
No Trap could deceive him, no Slip could confound
or Specimen true or pretended

He know the Birth-Rock of each pebble so round
and how far its Tour had extended

His Eloquence flowed like the Deluge retiring
Which Mastodon carcases floated
To a subject obscure he gave charms so inspiring
Young and old on Geology doated
He stood forth like an Outlier his hearers admiring
With pencil each anecdote noted

Where shall we our great Professor inter
That in peace may rest his Bones
If we hew him a rocky Sepulchre
He'll rise and break the Stones
And examine each Stratum that lies around
For he's quite in his Element underground

If with Mattock and Spade his body we lay
in the common Alluvial soil
He'll start up and snatch those Tools away
Of his own geological Toil
In a Stratum so young the Professor distains
That imbedded should be his Organic Remains

Then exposed to the drip of some [case?] hardening Spring
His Carcase let Stalactite cover
and to Oxford the petrified Sage we will bring
When he is incrusted all over

There mid Mammoths and Crocodiles high on a Shelf
Let him stand as a Monument raised to Himself

(on Dr. Buckland LLD
reader in Geology Oxford)

Tapton House
Chesterfield

To Revd Dr. Buckland
Oxford

11 Nov 1842

My dear Sir
I have received yours of the 8th for which I thank you. I concur with you on opinion that under the circumstances it would be impolite to press the matter further, for it is essential to accord an opposition which would involve undertaking in an excessive and useless expense I trust the Great Western. I am disposed to take up the Didcot line seriously; if they are sincerely taking steps to postpone the construction of [any line?], something should be done to render the final result certain as regards [?] and I strongly suspect that this is the policy of the Great Western.
At your meeting tomorrow which I regret I cannot attend I would suggest that you should consider the best method of getting a definitive promise from the Gt. Wtn that they will proceed with the line with all reasonable despatch. Of course if they agree to proceed you would support them and I should also do anything I could. I leave the question entirely in your hands - you are in possession of all my views.

Your humble Svt.
Yours faithfully
Geo Stephenson

P.S. I have recd a letter from Mr Latimer inviting me to dine with him then stay to meet you and some other friends which I am sorry I cannot do will you please inform him so

Rev. Dr. Buckland
Ch Ch
Oxford

Oulton Park
Dec 14 1835

Dear Buckland

I shall be much obliged to you to cast your eyes over this catalogue and let me know whether my additions or alterations are in your opinion likely to improve it either in the form of a short preface or any thing that may strike you as tending to render it as complete as possible.

Yours very sincerely

Mr. Grey Egerton

[Written on outside of folded letter - Tarporley December 15 1835 Catalogue of Fossil Fish]

To the Very Rev'd Dean of Westminster

Bath House Hotel
Yarmouth 20 June 18--

My dear Buckland

I send you a hastily concocted scheme for both examn at Cambridge if we are to have them of which there seems still to be considerable doubt.
I saw Sedgwick at Norwich last Friday - remarkably well - we shall be here another week for Mrs. H's health - I trust you are all well.

Ever [Yrs. truly]

J. Henslow