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Mr Sowerby presents his respects to Miss Morland and in consequence of Mr. Buckland’s desire he has sent her the following shells

Helix Congenda two specimens 2
Helix Shinulosa -ditto- 4
Helix Lachlamensis 4 4
Helix Glutinosa 3 3
Turbo [Sudens] 6 6
Turbo Nautilens 4 2
Turbo Laminarsus 4 4
Trochus [scarestus?] 4 4
Nautilus Lacustris 4 4
Mya[ [magarusiferia] 1 1
Turbo labiatus 1 5

                                                                  £1  15  0
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Miss Morland will please to observe that Mr. Sowerby has sent her but one specimen of Turbo labiatus because though he has more, the price is so high that he fears she might not like to go to the expense. The other species that Miss Morland desires Mr. S.
has not got at present. He can however obtain most of them at some future period. Mr. S has the pleasure of send to Miss M. two specimens of a new British [?] of which he begs her acceptance

1567 Regent Street

Decr. 23 1824

To Revd. W. Buckland
Corpus Christi College
Oxford

Dover
Thursday
9 J[ul]y 1825

My dearest friend,
We are just arrived after a rough passage and proceed to London tomorrow whether we get there tomorrow night, or not, I cannot tell you, but we shall certainly be at home on Sunday - Your Birds I have brought with me safely to this place, they are well stuffed and I hope you will like them - I saw in [Gagliano's?] Journal this morning that Professor Buckland had been presented by the Emperor of [B] with a small box composed of the fossil tooth of an elephant - We were only 3 days in Paris and are returned. The [?] family were as kind to me as before; they pressed me very much to dine with them to meet Lady [Davy/Barry?] and many English people, but my courage failed me - the last volume of Operman Fossilis was sent to you a little time since by a Quaker whose name I forget. M [?] admires the Duchess of Northumberland extremely he said "elle a beaucoup parle de vous" so that had I been in Paris I should without doubt have [been] introduced to her Grace. I have had another lesson in Lithography, and have brought a cargo of pencils home for Lithography - The Artist I mentioned to you, who draws so well on stone, complimented me very much on my attempt tho he was obliging enough to point out my errors.
I have only heard once from home. I trust I shall find you all well - Every body ought to go abroad to know the happiness of returning home again. I hope this will find you in Oxford as I shall see you soon. I only add that I am missing my dearest friend.
yr. very affectionate
Mary Morland

If unfortunately, you are not in Oxford pray write to me directly you receive this - Has the Chancellor decided?
Ever yours
M.M.

To Mrs Buckland

21st May

My Dear Mary

The dinners may be on the 9th and 11th will you send the Invitations. I hope to return from [Swansea?] Thursday and go to Oxford Saturday leaving Charterhouse Friday. I forward to-day to Mr. Milman the Book recd. from Mrs Gaisford by Frank

Ever yours

W.B.

Did you get the basket of fruit

Wednesday 9th June is a meeting of the Geological Soc. which may interfere with some of your list will not [Monday?] and Saturday be better days if the invitations are not gone out

To Mrs. Buckland

31 Dec 18--

My Dear Mary

In the [?] [?] of the weather there may be risk of taking cold by exposure to it. I had better continue here to arrange Papers that must require attention. [Mr Saumaurez?] wrote to Mr Arrowsmith proposing that he should take the duty at Islip and begin his [?] on the 13 Jany. I have a note today from him accepting by Invitation to the Rectory for a day or 2 on his arrival and in reply I invite him to arrive on the 12th to take his first Sunday on the 13th.
I hope the frost will have ended before the 12th. You had better not think of moving while the weather continues in its [?] severity. I had no memorandum of money advanced on [?] to poor [fellow?] nor do I remember to what time I paid him last but his Bill is in my Tin Box at Islip in a Packet labelled Paid Bills by next post Pray forward a large letter from Oxford for Mr Lawlor sealed properly with a silvered [wafer?] it is Mr Lawlor's Gas [?] which I should return to him immediately. It will be the size of a large sheet of foolscap.

Ever Your affect.

Wm. Buckland

[Date?] I am not worse as to health

My dear Mrs Buckland

I have packed [young?] Pepper in a hamper, and mean to start him tomorrow by the Telegraph to London directed to Dr. Buckland, Salopian Coffee House. Mrs Mustard the Mother has I fear gone after strange dogs, as the puppy is not so well bred as I could wish. such as he is I send him for Frank with my best love.
My kind remembrances to your young ones - and kiss little Adam Sedgewick for me.

Most tr[ul]y yours

A Sedgewick

After I leave Cambridge my address for a week or two will be Dent near Kendal

Cambridge Oct 7 [1847]

My dear Mary

Many letters require speedy answers so in the first place I acknowledge your Mamma's kind note and send her my thanks for it. If an honest man be the noblest work of God, why should not an honest woman be put on as high a pinnacle of glory? I ment to write to you a letter of congratulation to reach you on the 13th, your birthday. But after the 10th I shall be on the wing for several days and have perhaps no time for writing. It is therefore best for me now to write to you tho' I am up to the ears in Examination papers; and [verily?] out of temper having not yet received one of my Norwich boxes which contained the whole series of my Welsh Geological Journals and ought to have come on Monday. My servant is going off to town to look for it and as soon as I am at liberty I shall come back to Norwich should the stray box not have come. But I beg your pardon for [bothering?] you with my own private troubles. On the 13th your Mamma will give you from me a small remembrance of your Norwich visit, wear it for my sake and accept my heart's best wishes with it. May your life be a life of happiness and may every step you take be a step nearer to heaven! May the blessings of health and romantic love be your [?] [?] [?] I trust that you will have many happy years after the writer of this note is under the sod and that you will continue to think kindly of one who loved your Father and Mother and loved you as a friend - tho' he is now jogging on in the season of the [?] and [leaf?] while you are [?] away the verdant blossom of early Spring. I do not mean to be poetical but plain truth you know is sometimes good poetry - therefore plain words honestly spoken. May God bless you and make you happy! Give my kind regards to your Father and Mother and believe me
Ever your affectionate friend

A Sedgewick

P.S. Isabella is here and we leave Cambridge for Yorkshire at the end of the week. Did she know that I was writing to you I am sure she would send her love.

N.B. You must shut this note up and read it on the morning of the 13th - which will do as well, you may put on the [?] of [it's time?] a day or two and appear you [?] it on the 13th

Rhyl[l] July 25 [1859]

My dear Mrs Buckland

I shall be happy to see you at 6 Pall Mall on Wednesday next at 3pm
If you will send me a line there saying what time will suit you.

I am [?]
Most truly
Your [?]

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

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