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Secretary of State and Home Department

March 24 1877

Your Royal Highness

I am indeed most obliged to you for your very kind present. It is very beautiful and quite apropos to the work I like so much. I shall value it very much and am deeply grateful to you for it. I am looking forward some day next month to show you over the Brighton Aquarium I shall be free after 10 April. I have now [got?] to go to South Wales and Devonshire on Inspection duty I have not forgotten the Cray fish and the Swans.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland

Secretary of State and Home Department

27 Jan 1879

37 Albany St
Regents Park

Your Royal Highness

I can not thank you enough for your great kindness in sending me the great curiosity and perfectly unique [?] Stags Foot. It has already been very much admired I have sent for an Artist to make a drawing of it and I will take care that it is properly put up in situ. Having obtained your permission I will put a notice of this strange event in 'Land & Water' I am indeed obliged for your kindness. I beg to enclose a notice we have [?] relative to the Fresh Water Fisheries Act.

Your most obliged

Frank Buckland

Land & Water
Office - 176 Fleet St
London E.C.

Feb 12 1879

37 Albany St

Your Royal Highness

I have had a beautiful drawing of the Deer's leg in situ made, and intended (as you gave me leave) to publish it in this week's Land & Water. On receipt of the drawing from the Keeper I sent for the Artist who said he could make a nice drawing out of it. So with your permission we will wait till both blocks are ready - I have lent the Artist a drawing of a German Red Deer which you saw when you kindly came here - to fill up the details. As regards the foot itself - I sent it to my friend [Rulich?] he is a working German Stuffer the very best in the world he does the work for many of the big shops - He has some splendid things at his place. If you could call I am sure you would be pleased with the heads and horns.
I have been confined to the house with bronchitis and assure you do not like being on the sick list at all.

Your Royal Highness
Most obliged

Frank Buckland

Secretary of State and Home Department

37 Albany St
Regents Park

Feb 21 1879

Your Royal Highness

The Artist who is drawing the Red Deer has been ill and tells me he can not let me have the blocks for this week's 'Land & Water' he has promised me faithfully for next week. [Rulich?] reports he has made a capital job of the foot in situ on the tree branch. I have written about the Duke of Edinburgh's Pike in L & W tomorrow and hope you will approve
I beg to enclose a copy of a paper I am sending round to the chief Fishing ports on the North and East of England and Scotland, there are about 2800 fishing Smacks in the North Sea.
This is quite a new idea and I hear the Fishermen accept the proposition very kindly and now I beg to place a proposition before your Royal Highness

Secretary of State and Home Department

Albany St

March 14 1879

Your Royal Highness

I have been at work nearly all day at the Deers Foot [?]. the Printer said he must have 20 lines more to fill up the page see copy enclosed so you see I have taken the liberty of using the information Your Royal Highness kindly sent me this morning. If you will kindly send copies of the paper to owners of Deer Forests in Germany and I will forward copies as I am anxious to obtain as much information as I can for you.

Thanking you very much
Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland

Land & Water
Office - 176 Fleet Street
London E.C

April 23 1879

37 Albany St

Your Royal Highness
4-0pm

[Breton?] has been here. He agrees with me that the marks in the last Fox's skin are the marks of a dog's teeth and I have tried the holes with the fangs in the skull of a hound and they match exactly. I will look up the tests of Strychnene Please send me the other Foxes - I agree with Your Royal Highness the matter is very mysterious and ought to be settled.

Yours most obedient and obliged

Frank Buckland

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

Dec 22 1869

Your Royal Highness

I have seen Mr. Bartlett of the Zoological about your pheasants
1st He quite agrees with me that dampness is the cause of the malady and that therefore if it be possible the birds should be removed to a dryer place
2 He agrees with me that the place where they are confined should be roofed over, if the birds can not be removed.
3 He thinks that they should have pepper corns and that the person who feeds them should mix up some pepper corns in the food if they will not eat the pepper corns placed for them to pick up
4 We think that gravel is better than turf but that the best thing for them to walk on would be old brick and mortar rubbish - Mr Lee will make enquiries about the mole skins for them. The best man to dress them is Mr [Rulich] 8 Bettisland Street Hoxton. You can easily get enough for a waistcoat this year.

Your Royal Highness
Most Obedient

Frank Buckland

Secretary of State and Home Department

July 14 1879

Your Royal Highness

I have seen Mr. Rulich about the Deers Foot and Horns. He will bring them both down to you next Wednesday 16th leaving Paddington 8.15am arriving Great Western Station 9.10am. I have told him that I would ask Your Royal Highness to send the cart for him if you would be so very kind as to do so.

Yours most
obedient and obliged

Frank Buckland

Secretary of State and Home Department

37 Albany St
Regents Park

Dec 13 1879

Your Royal Highness

Will you allow me to beg your acceptance of a copy of our Deep Sea Fishery report which we have just presented to Parliament through Mr. Cross. Please especially look to my History of Sea Fishes Appendix No.2 Page 178. You will also see that I have followed the [?] you once gave me at the Museum and have given at P 246 a table showing the fish in season during every month of the year. I am now getting ready for the Berlin Fishery Exhibition which is to be held in April 1880.

I remain Your Royal Highness
most obedient and obliged

Frank Buckland

Scotch Salmon Fishery Enquiry

Salmon Fisheries Office
4, Old Palace Yard, Westminster
London SW
and 22, Royal Circus
Edinburgh

Tuesday Jan 24 [187-]

Your Royal Highness

I shall have great pleasure in meeting you tomorrow at the Zoological Gardens at 3-0pm

Yours obedient

Frank Buckland

If you have time I should very much like you to call in at my studio Albany St afterwards to see some fine casts just finished