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Feb 26 1837
Professor Buckland
Oxford
from Edw. Chalmers

To The Rev. Professor Buckland
Post Office
Inverary
Scotland

Sheepstead
July 15 [1824?]

Write in detail and on Foolscap if you have time, I do not wait for any answers

My dear Sir,

It gave me sincere pleasure to hear that your Party promised to well, and I trust that the sea may now cease to be Ipecacuanha to you and that you may have every enjoyment possible in your Scottish excursion. To be sure three months is a long time to look forward to your absence and, I miss you very much already, but it would be the extreme of selfishness to wish you anywhere than on the spot where you are now - there seems to be an ample field laid open to you in Scotland, and I anticipate your doing great things there while you are traversing the Sea and the Land and contemplating Nature in her wildest and most imposing attire pursuing enquiries so highly interesting to yourself and to science. I am employed in tying up flowers and killing snails - the comparison makes me appear somewhat contemptible in my own eyes and, I could almost wish myself a man - but, were I one of the Lords instead of the Ladies of Creation I might probably have been envious and jealous of your fame and success whereas they now afford me the highest gratification so that I believe matters are better as they are. I only wish that among those nearest and dearest to me I could find some Companion in my noble pursuit of gardening and snail destroying, but, Alas! I fear they are not [?] to it, as old Isaac Walton says of a man who does love fishing. I have tried to make all my sisters from the biggest to the last take some sort of interest in these things but in vain and, in the midst of a large family, I live in solitude as far as lies in community of pursuits and occupations. I often fear I shall grow absolutely stupid, if it were not for your society [occurs?] to rub up my Intellects I think I should, nevertheless, it is a mortifying fact that I always feel conscious of being particularly dull and flat in your presence - this dullness appears to be extending itself into my letters but it is unavoidable , for I have not the least interesting matter to communicate to you. Mr [Tuckwell?] dined here last week to see Lady [Pegge?] but he told no Oxford news worth relating. I have not yet heard when I am to go into [Sussex?] I wish you had seen the Aylings on your [road?] hope you will see more of Dr. Chalmers [hole in page] Did you ever read his Sermons? On the Impiety of Modern Philosophy? I believe he alludes more particularly to Geology. I mean to the fanciful theories put forth concerning that science. Mr [?] orations lie before me speaking of the neglect of spiritual things among the higher classes of society, he says "The [rocks] from promintory residences among the clouds to their deep rests in the dark bowels of the Earth, have a most bold and [venturous] priesthood who see in them rough and flinty, faces a more delectable image to adore than in the [?] countenance of God happily your Geology has been turned to a better account that do deserve [?] such a censure. I hope you mean to give me a series of Scottishrock specimens of your own collecting - I would suggest the plan of your keeping the corner of a box for my exclusive use, or I shall get none for you have left me with a single stump of an [Elysenses?] tooth by way of "Specimens found of Kirkdale" Pray don't use me so shabbily again for I want to keep up my small geological collection -
I think as soon as you have filled a little box you had better send it off to me at once - I find the books you were so kind as to send me on shells very useful. Did I tell you that Mrs. Duffield's governess who is so perfectly acquainted with Italian has taken me in hand and I am making good progress in the language, so that the next time you give me an Italian letter to translate I shall be au fait in the matter. I am very sorry the bone was broken - I acknowledge my unskilled packing, however, remember this is the first accident that ever befel the numerous bones which have for years journeyed to and fro, in Mr. [Chees's?] cart. Being come to the end of my paper I have only to say God Bless You - the oftener you can write, the oftener will you give pleasure to yours

Most truly

M.M.

Sheepstead

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

C Stokes Esq
Verulam
Greys Inn
London

Oxford [Feby?] 27 18--

My dear Sir
I saw Miss Morland yesterday who has just finished a Copy in Lithography of one of my [Munich?] prints [(a Hare and Cat!)?] which on the stone looks quite beautiful. She borrowed the stone of [Moser?] at Rowney and Forster and it will be sent up to town from Abingdon this evening. She has taken great pains with it and is naturally anxious that the impressions shd be taken off in the best manner possible. I have therefore promised her to beg the favor of your assistance in superintending this matter, and requesting you to order the first proof copy that is taken off to be send to you for your examination and approbation before any more are taken off. On receiving your first lot the whole impression be got through as quickly as possible. I have just heard from Paris that the machine substituting the Paste Board for them is not likely to answer and that the one they have tried at [?] does not succeed as well as they could wish. Have you decided yet what to do with your Trilobites? Somebody told me lately (not yourself) that you have resolved to send them to Brogniart I have some misgiving that and have a question in some letter of yours by me that is unanswered if so pray refresh my memory. I hope you rec'd by Certificates for the Linnean and have done the needful. When you see Webster pray tell him I have heard from Mr Lambert stating he wd have his Arrears at the Society paid up immediately. Pray how go on the Casts at Chantreys. He promised me some specimens of his different marbles which were to come through you for my lectures. Pray refresh his memory the first time you see him and if it be at his house and at a leisure hour you will perhaps have the kindness to assist in breaking off and packing the Specimens of a proper size for cabinets.

Yours very Truly
W. Buckland

Ch. Ch. 25 July 1840

Dear Bull
Hudson has been with me this morning and represents the difficulty of getting the best Bath stone to be now so great that he can with difficulty get the smallest quantity. The reason is obviously one which will continue to operate during the whole of the next 12 months more forcibly than in any other year from the Creation to the general conflagration viz the construction of the Works of the Great Western Railway in the midst of the Country that supplies the Bath stone. The Railway Engineers sharp fellows and always on the spot will be sure to want and to select for their own use all the best stone that can be got out and if we buy this year we shall only get their leavings and at a price exaggerated for the present year only beyond the normal amount as was the last with [Young?] Barnes Building at Ardington. Is it not prudent therefore to postpone our [conjunction?] of 100 tons of Bath Stone or more, at least for one year? by the end of which the Rail Road will be finished [for?] the extraordinary demand of 1840-41 will have passed away.

Believe me

Truly yours

W. Buckland

You will hear from Barnes respecting Col. Wood's Agent who has been here today we told him the Chapter had long and duly considered the principle of valuing their renewal where [Commutation?] has taken place according to the scale of the [Commutation?] Tables and as they had resolved to make no exception from their Rule in the case of [Enstone?] Dr Barnes and I had no authority and saw no reason to open any discussion of the principle on which Col. Woods fine out to be estimated.

To the Revd Dr Bull
Staverton
Daventry

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 Miss Morland
2 Godfrey [?]
Abingdon

Oxford 23 Jan 18[44]

My dear M

I will thank you to put the conditions specified in the 2 following pages with a more legal form and to send the draft of the same to me for perusal together with this Paper in the course of a day or so and that a fair copy may be returned to be by Saturday Eve which I may take to Marsh to be signed on Monday next by [hole in paper] [Mr B] and me
Truly yrs
Wm. Buckland

By how many witnesses should the signatures to supplementary agreement be [appended?]

The following Supplementary Agreement was made this day between the Rev. Dr Buckland and Mr William Buckland of Marsh Gibbon whereas it is stipulated in the agreement between the dated 2 of Sept 1843 and the s[ai]d Dr B shall allow the said W B out of his 2 years Rent the sum of £50 for extra labor in levelling all the Mounds, Banks, Headlands and Ridges and filling up the old ditches and quarries and in raising the furrows and other acts of husbandry necessary to correct and make uniform and complete the fragments of Pasture and Arable that are now [?] but such allowance to the words "H[o]us[e]maidlike Manner" it is now further agreed the place of these indefinite conditions the following shall be [?] viz that whatever sims of money shall be with consent of Dr Buckland in writing money shall be expended in manual labour. For the above named purposes by Mr B and an account of thereof in writing given to Dr B within 1 month after the expenses [?] [?] one half thereof shall be repaid by [?] [?] Dr Buckland out of Rent and with [?] in case Mr B shall not continue on the farm after 29 Feb 1847.
...another fourth part of the total sum so expended shall be repaid by Dr B out of the Rent of the 4th year and further that whatever earth be removed by waggons and carts and horses by Mr B with consent of Dr B in writing and for any of the above [?] [?] the entire cost of horsses and drivers and cars and waggons shall be borne by W B and the entire cost of labor for filling the carts shall be repaid by Dr Buckland to Mr B and it is further agreed that whereas Dr Buckland since the 29 Sept 1843 has purchased 2 more lots of land on the North side of his farm one called long [medal nice?] and measuring 7 1/2 Acres and another lot called The Breath and measuring 5 1/2 Acres the two lots of land shall be rented by Mr B for 4 years ending 29 Sept 1847 at the same price per acre and under the same conditions and modifications therof as to every respect as the [150?] Acres mentioned in the above [?] agreement to which this is a Supplement instead of the indefinite Clause that I shd allow £50 for levelling mounds and filling ditches, quaries etc. if done to my satisfaction substitute a new Clause that I shall pay for the labor of filling such carts and waggons as Mr B shall furnish without charge for them or further Horses and Drivers for the purpose of hauling such mounds and banks of earth as shall be removed by carts and waggons for the purpose of levelling and filling up Ditches and other [?] on the farm also shall have gratis such turfs as may be cut or [?] on my part of [?] [?] of turfing any sorts of any field that may be selected by Dr B the turf to be cut and laid down at the cost of Dr B except the hauling of the same.

To Rev W Buckland
[?] [?]
C.C. College
Oxford

46 Russell Square
11 May 18[--]

Dear Sir

I shall not return till Friday the 19th as my Father and Mother are detained in Worcestershire and I thought it better to write to tell you of this alteration in my plans, as you were so good as to say you would ride to Abingdon to give me instructions about [?] drawing. The Fossil you can send when you please as they will take great care of any box directed to me and, if you can make it convenient to return to Oxford by Abingdon on Monday week I shall be very happy to see you. The Misses [?] asked me if it was possible that the gentleman who contradicted every word Dr Leach said at the Museum the other day could be Mr Buckland I have seen our new little friend once, and I hope to visit the Museum again. If I can be of any use to you in London, let me know - I lent your lecture to my old school mistress who is very much pleased with it. I wish you had time and inclination to write an elementary work on Geology you write so clearly and intelligibly that such a Publication would be most useful - I really believe that [to] many wise folks geologists are half Infidels and tho' your Lecture is well calculated to remove these prejudices, still a longer Treatise on the subject would be in my opinion (which however I offer with due humility) very [hole in paper] desirable
I durst write no more, as I may be told that my pen moves as fast as my Tongue and to as little purpose perhaps.

Believe me my dear Sir
Very truly yours
Mary Morland

To Mrs Buckland

Dear Mary

In the Dining Room Right Hand Corner of Hall down among 10 Maps is one 3 feet long in a Brown [?] with a red tape round it is a Map of Berks. and Oxford wh. send by [?] to

Yours Very Truly

Wm. Buckland