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My dear Mr Buckland
I was just leaving the house to see the first boxes unpacked, which were advised yesterday, but am anxious to catch the early post in order to tell you of the intense relief your letter has brought me. A report had reached us yesterday, through Professor Wm. Peters, of your grave illness. Most truly thankful I am that you can report yourself better. I will do my best to ensure the best possible exhibition of your treasures. The [locality?] is excellent. You will have guessed from the fact of my not having written to you what had happened, viz that the correspondence with England had been taken out of my hands entirely, by our chief Manager who thought that everything could be done better in the old fashioned red-tape bureaucratic manner. Now my predictions have been most completely verified. I am sorry to say. It is a comfort for me to have the superintendence of the English department, together with my brother. We shall exert ourselves to the best of our ability, and keep you informed as we get along.

Believe me
With Kind regards to Mrs Buckland
Go Bunsen

My address is:-
W. Postamt 30

Reichstag
19 April 1880

Dear Mr. Buckland
It was a great pleasure to receive your letter as a proof of your progressing recovery. Since I wrote last, we have worked hard to mend the plaster, & today a respectably recommended painter is at work to cover with color the mended portions, the cracks d(itt)o. No care was omitted when opening your boxes I was personally present. Never did I see a greater havoc as that which this short & easy journey had produced. The damage is practically irreparable. Alas! there is no hope, apparently of seeing the rest of your boxes in time for the Opening & for the Crown Prince’s official visit. My hope is that they may arrive in time to be shown to Their Majesties who have announced their visit for Thursday 22nd out of courtesy to their Son, & wishing to leave him the first place at the
opening ceremony, they have preferred not coming on the First Day. You will receive by next mail a Newspaper -! ‘Berliner Tageblatt’ containing a brief notice of your exhibits in an article which bears my name. The number is printed expressly in honour of the
Opening.

I shall send you whatever comes under my notice in other papers

Let me confess to you (privately) that there is a rage a fury here against the English for having affronted Germany by refusing to take part in our Exhibition. I do my best to tranquillize the correspondents of English newspapers here, also who feel the approbrium cast upon England by that abstention. Lord ----Rupell/Russell I am informed is very much displeased too. Under the circumstances, it will be difficult to create anything like a kindly feeling here, unless you can come yourself & carry everything before you by your enthusiasm

Believe me
Yours very sincerely
Go Bunsen

17 April 1880

Dear Mr. Buckland
Your first boxes arrived the very morning of Thursday when I had heard from you. They were unpacked under my eyes. The man who was employed by us declared that in his experience of this Exhibn nothing had arrived in so desperate a state of packing [so?] as these boxes! I am sorry to say that much glass, & much plaster too, was smashed. Whatever can be mended, is now in the hands of a very experienced man from the Zool Museum, & I hope the Crown Prince will when visiting us officially on the Opening Day -20th- see everything in a pleasant condition & be most favorably impressed. We are at a loss to imagine what can have induced Mr. Johnson to send off the boxes so late. It is impossible to do full justice to those exhibits which arrived after the opening day which was announced months and months ago! Several boxes are advised today. I hope that yours of Wednesday last may be among the number, & assure you that your exhibits, even if we should not get them until a few hours before the opening shall be placed to the best of our ability. - I say ‘ours’ because my brother Theodore is assisting me. The Committee were delighted when I could announce to them today that you are in a fair way of recovery.
Hoping soon to report favorably,
I remain
With kind regards to Mrs. Buckland
Go. Bunsen

Maien Strasse
Berlin W.

26 July 1880

My dear Mr. Buckland
I am truly delighted to learn from your letter of the 24th that your health has derived benefit from your stay at Margate. No time shall be lost by me in obtaining from the Office of sending to you the calculation, with vouchers, of the carriage to Berlin
The cost of carriage from Berlin to London devolves upon the Exhn. Committee, by the stipulations contained in the our Prospectus. As for packing expenses, I think we shall willingly bear them. although all other Nations have borne them, - Italy, Denmark

• do - do - do. If you will send for Mr. Sachs you will hear that he made a present in your name of several exhs to [?] reserved two exhs. for you & offered all the rest without exception to the Fischerei Verein knowing from the experience of your boxes when they arrived here that nearly everything will arrive at its destination utterly spoilt if not destroyed, I answered Mr Sachs by return that I should entreat the Museum authorities here to keep everything. Mr Sachs your representative, answered nothing. I, therefore
  gave over everything to the Museum, in your name (excepting the above mentioned) with the understanding however that if you should change your mind or Mr. S. [or?]I have misunderstood you, each & all of those exhs must be instantly returned to you I will now, therefore, instruct the museum authorities accordingly.
  Ys very Sincerely
  Go. Bunsen

Of course, the Exhn which was closed on 30th June is utterly & entirely cleared by this time.

Berlin der 4 June 1880

Direction der Internationalen
Fischerei - Ausstellung zu Berlin N
Invaliden-Strasse 42 - 46

Dear Mr Buckland
I had the pleasure of receiving your friend Mr. [Wattel] yesterday afternoon & think him a very intelligent, very modest man. He accompanied me to a sort of public Conference, in which I had to take the chair, about Sea-fisheries, & I introduced him to our Minister of Agriculture & ½ a dozen of our leading men. This morning I shall meet him & he shall then be introduced to all our Foreign Commissioners, such at least as are here. The next time you do me the honor of writing pray mention the state of your health. On Saturday (tomorrow morning) an official visit to the English Dept. is planned, in which my brother & I will show your Exhibits, as well as we can!

With my best compliments to Mrs. Buckland, & to your sister Mrs [Bunyan?] whom I had the pleasure of meeting the other day,

believe me
Yours very sincerely
Go Bunsen

We close on 30th inst. No Cook’s Tourists, that I can hear of!