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Secretary of State and Home Department

37 Albany St
Regents Park

March 11 [197-]

Your Royal Highness

I have just received the enclosed proofs of the accident to your Stag. Will you kindly look at them and suggest any alteration you may like made. Please send them back to my by return of post as I am anxious to put them in next weeks paper. Do the Red Deer east Ivy in the Winter what was your Stag trying to get at if not Ivy.

Yours most
obedient and onliged

Frank Buckland

Fisheries Office
4, Old Palace Yard
Westminster S.W.

Nov 27 [187-]

Your Royal Highness

I am exceedingly obliged to you for your very kind letter which I have forwarded to my sister. She will I am sure be highly delighted with it. If you would kindly allow it the [?] shall be left till Monday on the chance of Her Majesty the Queen wishing the inspect it. Again thanking you much

Your most obliged

Frank Buckland

Secretary of State and Home Department

There is a Whale off
Tenby. I wish you
would go and shoot him

Dec 22 [187-]

Your Royal Highness

I am indeed most obliged to you for a splendid haunch of Venison. I has subscribed to a 'goose club' for Christmas but now your Venison will take the goose's place. I thought of you yesterday at Leadenhall Market such a show of poultry the largest Turkey was 30 lbs an old Cock very tough I should think he brought seven guineas, There was also a wild Swan and one (Capercaelyie) but he was not fresh. You said you would like one, shall I send you one. Splendid birds but I expect all poached. Most of the geese I saw come from Iceland/Ireland. There was a lovely Snowly Owl 5£ and several Common Owls also a wild Swan. I finished my evening on Crab experiments. I want to stop them putting Crabs into cold water and boiling them alive.

Again thanking you
very much
Yours most obliged
Frank Buckland

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

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

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

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.

Includes copies of the letter of appointment of Hodgson as Resident in Nepal (1833) and extracts from congratulatory letters and testimonials (some from Lord Auckland)

Mainly miscellaneous letters. Undated Copy of letter from Alexander Johnson of Royal Asiatic Society thanking Hodgson for letter re RAS assistance in publication. 6 July 1836. 15 September 1837 (Muttra) to Robert Wroughton with description of Melivora and stating despatch of birds to Katmandu. 23 January 1839 Memorandum of agreement between Brian A Hodgson, on behalf of his father, and Mr Swainson agreeing to give Swainson custody of all drawings he requests for future production of Atlas of Zoology of India. 16 May 1839 to Lt Colonel WH Sykes enclosing above agreement 1837-1842 Minutes of Bengal Asiatic Society (with letter to Secretary dated 12th January 1843). 20 May?? from William Hodgson (father of BH Hodgson) to Dean of Carlisle re drawings sent by BH Hodgson to the Dean 1 February 1843 F Forshall (Sec. British Museum) to Hodgson acknowledging collection of birds and agreeing to carryout requests. 10 February 1843 JE Gray (BM) to Hodgson 10 February 1843 JE Gray to Williams mentions Hodgson's gift of collection and request for "return of deposit" with Williams. 29 June 1844 (Knowsley) Lord Derby to Hodgson 1 July 1844 H Piddington (Bengal Asiatic Society re trouble with Blyth over Hodgson's specimens. Encloses copy of description of Scuiropterus chrysotrix. 26 July 1844 JE Gray (BM) to Hodgson re. naming of specimens and duplicates. 21 September 1844 H Torrens (Sec. Bengal Asiatic Association) reo publication of drawings. Complaint of behaviour of Blyth. 26 December 1844 JE Gray to Hodgson announcing sending of Gerrard to Canterbury to collect specimens. "As soon as collection is sorted duplicates will be delivered to other Museums" Also offers to help find an artist to undertake publication of drawings. Advises Hodgson to put all his observations in order. 26 December 1844 JE Gray to the Trustees considering Hodgson's wishes concerning descriptions of specimens, making of catalogues and publication of drawings. 14 January 1845 Lord Derby (Knowsley) to Hodgson asking assistance and advice in obtaining pheasants. 6 February 1845 JE Gray to Hodgson supplying information re progress of catalogue