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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!

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.

Believe me
With Kind regards to Mrs Buckland
Go Bunsen

Tapton House
Chesterfield

To Revd Dr. Buckland
Oxford

11 Nov 1842

My dear Sir
I have received yours of the 8th for which I thank you. I concur with you on opinion that under the circumstances it would be impolite to press the matter further, for it is essential to accord an opposition which would involve undertaking in an excessive and useless expense I trust the Great Western. I am disposed to take up the Didcot line seriously; if they are sincerely taking steps to postpone the construction of [any line?], something should be done to render the final result certain as regards [?] and I strongly suspect that this is the policy of the Great Western.
At your meeting tomorrow which I regret I cannot attend I would suggest that you should consider the best method of getting a definitive promise from the Gt. Wtn that they will proceed with the line with all reasonable despatch. Of course if they agree to proceed you would support them and I should also do anything I could. I leave the question entirely in your hands - you are in possession of all my views.

Your humble Svt.
Yours faithfully
Geo Stephenson

P.S. I have recd a letter from Mr Latimer inviting me to dine with him then stay to meet you and some other friends which I am sorry I cannot do will you please inform him so

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

Rev. Dr. Buckland
Ch Ch
Oxford

Oulton Park
Dec 14 1835

Dear Buckland

I shall be much obliged to you to cast your eyes over this catalogue and let me know whether my additions or alterations are in your opinion likely to improve it either in the form of a short preface or any thing that may strike you as tending to render it as complete as possible.

Yours very sincerely

Mr. Grey Egerton

[Written on outside of folded letter - Tarporley December 15 1835 Catalogue of Fossil Fish]

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

Dear Miss Buckland

If you per Mit me to try to Mit-igate
the wildness of Mit I hope you
will ad-Mit that I re-Mit her in a
Mit-igated condition - if not we
must make out a Mit-timus &
send her to a Mit-tan

Pray send her in her Mittens

Yours ever

J.B.

To the Very Rev'd Dean of Westminster

Bath House Hotel
Yarmouth 20 June 18--

My dear Buckland

I send you a hastily concocted scheme for both examn at Cambridge if we are to have them of which there seems still to be considerable doubt.
I saw Sedgwick at Norwich last Friday - remarkably well - we shall be here another week for Mrs. H's health - I trust you are all well.

Ever [Yrs. truly]

J. Henslow