December 3 1875
Your Royal Highness
Allow me to thank you for very much indeed for the three little hedgehogs one big and two little which arrived all right this morning. The little fellows were certainly in a state of hybernation. The big one is quite tame. I think I shall fat him up and eat him on Christmas Day as a speciality.
Yours most obliged
Frank Buckland
Buckland, Francis Trevelyan