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Sir Robert Peel
requests the honor of
Dr. Buckland's
Company at Dinner on Saturday
the 15th June at 1/2 past 7 o'clock

Whitehall Gardens The Favor of an answer is desired

To have the honor of meeting the King of Saxony

Photograph of a lecturer addressing his audience. On the back is written 'Professor Buckland lectures at the Ashmoleum'

Red Granite Gothic ledgers all polished except the upright part of lower plinth and [?] including its [stem]? proposed to be erected to the memory of Dr. Buckland late Dean of Westminster

This is the drawing referred to in my estimate of 21st October 1856/58
D. [Millet]?
3 Fitzroy Terrace
Highgate Road
London 22nd April 1856

Mr Buckland Sir
I am ashamed of you as ort to be as is thought to be a Natteralist about them ere lions in Daniels den. Yes they hev fine Manes no doubt in the Pictur and you ar all right Sir about the [?] of the 3 year old at our establishement Mr Jamrach as gos in for the ould testiment he says they niver had South African black manes in Nebukednezers country. You may hev seed the Maneless lion as was in the Zoological sum years back and cum from North of India. Well I tuk my missus a Whitmunday to the Kademy and seed the pictur cost me two bob and a Whituesday we went to the british Museum free gratis and tuk her into the [?] where Nebukednezers hartist has drawed in stone the Assisirrian Lions in a way as shows that he observed ther nature and must have bin the sort that ort to have med a mil of Daniel and they have no more Manes nor the Maneless lions as are now in North Indier. Its all right what you say of the Kademy hartists that they should observe nature more and I says they should not go to the Cap to get lions for Daniels den but other folk besides hartists should look to nature and the geograffical dustribution of beastes.
Your humble Servant

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)

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

Dear Bull,

Do you think the enclosed sufficient? or shall I ask for the sums paid for Poor Rate on all the Estates from 1833 to 1841 it shd. be more satisfactory than a partial statement of 3 Estates. I will write for a full statement if you desire it.
I am just returned from Yorkshire by Noble host made no allusion to [Elliker?] tho I led up to it 2 or 3 times but he said not a word. I shall be home more or less till [1 Oct?] The granit will be finished as to steps and parapet in a few days and look glorious[ly?] [?] is here.

W. Buckland

I send you my only copy of the London Mercury that you may read the Speeches of W. Harcourt and myself on [?] [?] Meeting at [?] and pray return it by next post while it will come free.

Yours
Staverton
Daventry

Mrs Buckland
Ch. Ch.
Oxford

Shrewsbury Monday

My Dear Mary

I got your letter at Bangor Saturday and mean to stay this day in the neighbourhood of Salop and hope to be in Oxford Tuesday Eve by Birmingham coach about 8. Mr Sopwith is gone to meet Mr [Baddell?] near Wolverhampton

Ever yours

W.B.

23 Jny [18?]

Sir

It is I regret to say totally out of my power to give any assistance to the Parties mentioned in your letter accompanied by the inclosed statement.

Yours [Very Truly?]

W. Buckland