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Miss Buckland
(Deanery)
Westminster Abbey

Cuddesdon
Tuesday 13 Nov [18]49

My dear Mit

Welcome home again once more, after your long absence I was obliged to leave town at 2.45 yesterday.
Tomorrow I hope to be at the Deanery by 11.45 to attend 2 services in the Abby
Thursday preaching in the morning and on Thursday Evening at 7.30 to go to Oxford and Islip about 11 you had better go with me.
I return to Cuddesdon this afternoon and am

your affectionate father

W. Buckland

Miss Buckland
Poultney
Islip
Oxford

My dear Mit

I have a letter from Mr [Pentlaw?] saying he has paid for you to Miss [Leake?] £2. 15/18. 0 Will you tell me by return Post if this is correct. I hope on Xmas day to reach Oxford by 1/2 past 5.
Will you order the carriage to meet the omnibus at the Roebuck at that hour. The family had better dine early and I will join you at tea.

I trust you are all pretty well and am
Your affectionate W.B.

Malvern Friday
10 Aug
Postmarked 1849

My Dear Mit

Your note has been forwarded to me here on College [?] and I send you the half of two £5 notes and desire you by return of Post to acknowledge their safe arrival that I may forward the remainder from London where I hope to sleep this evening and shall till about Wednesday when I propose to return to Islip for a month or 5 weeks. I trust you will take care of your knee and retain it in repose in a horizontal position till it is to be used without [?] and are without [?] it feeling [?]

Yours

Wm. Buckland

Ch. Ch.
Tuesday 22 [?]

My Dear Mit

Will you tomorrow morning go to my Hat Maker near Lambeth House and order a new Hat for me to be without fail at the Deanery on or before Saturday Evening and also go to the Golden [Bell/Ball?] in Pall Mall and buy one yard of Broad Red Silk Ribbon of the Order of the Bath and bring it with you to Oxford that I may be ready for Drayton and Cambridge. You or one of the little girls have my red Ribbons which you had better find to get the measure exact. If they cannot find it the [drapers?] shop probably know the exact length. I think it costs 5 or 6 pence and will you remind Robert to send on letters Thursday before 8am and before 5pm will you write to tell me how the children's cough goes on and your Mamma

Yours affectionately

W. Buckland

Best not to go to Mrs Coutts if you do you will regret it to the last day of your life

To Mr Sewell
Exeter
Thursday 11

Dear Sewell
Many thanks for your Note of yesterday. I am very sorry it will not be in my power to have the pleasure of meeting the [Club] at your Rooms this evening.

I remain
Truly yours
W. Buckland

6 Jany [18?]

To Mrs. Buckland
Ch. Ch.
Oxford

My dear Mary

I go Friday morning to Cirencester with John who will return to Oxford with me Saturday to sleep at our house in the best Bed Room and dine Saturday with [Daubeny?] to meet Dr. Graham and Professor Johnson.
A good meeting last eve.

Ever yours
Wm. 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