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Berlin W. 17 Maien Strasse
5.5 1880

Dear Sir

I have just sent off my catalogue to you per bookpost, all the exhibits that have arrived are marked by a cross (No1300 - 1358 ) The German Fishery Society having no Museum or Library could not give any space for things presented to them. But the “ Prussian Ministry of Agriculture” will be very glad to place the interesting reports kindly presented by you & Mr. S. Walpole in the library, and the present Exhibition building, which is destined for the “ Agricultural Museum” would be perfectly fitted to take in any exhibits presented to the “ Landwirtschaftliches Ministerium” as the present Exhibition takes place under the special auspices of Minister [Lucius?] & his right hand [Mr Marcaed?] Mr. Johnson will have let you know, that I am not able to find quite as many pictures & tables as marked on your list; perhaps the one or the other have remained behind? I count 4 (not 5) plans of Salmon passes & 4 (not 6) tables showing food of sea fish. The last fish was terribly broken, but has been perfectly repaired.

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Very truly yours
T. von Bunsen

Claridges Hotel
42 Brooke Street
Grosvenor Square W

Decbr. 15th/61

Dear Mr. Frank Buckland
I could not think what had become of you, that you should have been located at Windsor, for so many months never entered by head - I am however glad to find you are in the land of the living, and hope you will long remain here. How very much I feel for the Queen, to lose one she so dearly loved - one so young that she might have ensured his life for years, one so gifted and so highly thought of by all. His death is a national loss - yet His Royal Highness is happier than even Her Majesty could have made him here. I have given £10 to the [?] Society but they have not acknowledged it in any way. I sent it on the 9th of last July thro' Coutts Bank perhaps they don't send a receipt for what is paid thro' a Bankers. You must excuse this. I am writing by candle light and my eyes are so bad that I cannot see to make a letter even with spectacles.
If you can tell me one thing of Her Majesty, pray do - as to how she is and how she bears her loss

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Sincerely yours
Sir Frank Chantry

Postkarte aus Deutschland

Stettin
26 June 1880

To Frank Buckland Esq
H.M. Inspector of Fisheries
37 Albany Street
Regents Park
London, England

Today we received your payment of 27 Marks and sent to your address (Der Sohe Fischeres Zeitung?] of 1879 and 80. The following Nos. up to the end of the year will be regularly transmitted. A catalogue of our publications is placed inside. We beg to inform you, that the yearly price of the Gazette for abroad is 10M instead of 8M. Thus 4M being still to our credit.

Truly yours
Herrcke & Lebeling
Publishers

Letter to Sir Rod[eric]k Murchison 2 June

Horse Guards
2 June 1860

Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date on the subject of the recommendation of Asst. Surgeon Buckland of the 2nd Life Guards by the Colonel of that Regiment to succeed to the Surgeoncy vacant by the death of Surgeon [Tardrew?] I have to state in reply that the appointment in question is under consideration and that it is very satisfactory to me to be assured of the favorable opinion which is entertained of Asst. Surgeon Buckland by the officers of his Regt. as well of his professional qualifications by Sir Benjamin Brodie
I am Sir
Yours
George

PRIVATE

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.

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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

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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,

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Yours very sincerely
Go Bunsen

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