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.
Dear Mrs Buckland
I beg to offer for Miss Marianne’s acceptance a knitted cap I purchased at Meeda in 27 it was the work of the little Babes of the Ecole Primaire established by the Beguines. Pray shew it Mr Duncan whenever the christening takes place I shall beg to offer a X-tening robe to therefore spare your working fingers. I send the Professor of Pomology 2 specimens of Profane apples grown in this Park (very good keepers) & 1 specimen of Religious apple given me by the B(isho)p of B(ath) & Wells. I shall be glad to see my pocket book as soon as Mr. Duneen has [?] me his contribution- Mr Bragge has been our guest all this week & went to drink tea with us last night to see a great curiosity - an ancient Beauty the dow(age)r Lady Pembroke the [?] [?] of Geo.3. I send a roll of L[or]d [Powis’s]? hot water plan I don’t want it returned
Grove Pl. July 31/57
Dear Miss Buckland
Sir Roderick was so good as to send me a copy of his address to the Geogr. Soc. which having read with avidity as being a very able & satisfactory paper, and having much liked the brief but telling notice of your dear father I tried to procure from the
printer a copy to send to you - and your good mother and sisters - but having failed I was about to send you my copy by this post, - my young ladies however interfered -and assure me that there is no possible doubt of Sir Rodks having already despatched one of his earliest copies to St. Leonards Is that the case or not? - If not, you shall by return of post have that belonging to Yours faithfully
[F,B.]?
Dear Mit
Your aunt has purloined my paperknife it has never arrived
Yours aff[ectionatel]y
[F.A.B.]?
Rhyl[l] July 25 [1859]
My dear Mrs Buckland
I shall be happy to see you at 6 Pall Mall on Wednesday next at 3pm
If you will send me a line there saying what time will suit you.
I am [?]
Most truly
Your [?]
Red Granite Gothic ledgers all polished except the upright part of lower plinth and [?] including its [stem]? proposed to be erected to the memory of Dr. Buckland late Dean of Westminster
This is the drawing referred to in my estimate of 21st October 1856/58
D. [Millet]?
3 Fitzroy Terrace
Highgate Road
London 22nd April 1856
My dear Dean
The Archaeological Meeting
This year it is to be at Norwich & not at Hereford - The [final] sermon for me, thinking of Hereford for our Fenchurch meeting was your idea of visiting the Wye, & now we find that the Bishop will be glad to receive us. The installation will be I believe on the 6th or 7th of [July]? at or possibly 5th or 8th. After that it we shall go on to Fenchurch [?] but until we know the day of the installation we can not fix the exact day. I must be back at Ashby on Monday the 19th of July, on account of the Agricultural Meeting which takes place at Northampton in that week & some of my [?] will possibly come to me on Tuesday, & possibly even on Monday- you remember you arranged to come to me I am WORD hoping that I can [?] ask Mrs Buckland at that time as my time will be full, but I hope she will when with you [?] [?] to see my Museum in its original state. The Norwich Meeting is to [?] on the 29th July. The dates then will be thus [V & Mat]? 5 to 8th July, Hereford, Fenchurch between 9th & 17th July Agriculture between 19th & 24th July. Norwich between 29th July & 5th Aug.
Yours most truly
Northampton
[?] [?] March 16 1847
I have today received a letter from the Dean of Ely - He proposed times for our excursion sent to him
Monday 10 April 1933
Note
'Charles to keep'
Dear Charles
In his last letter Hugh asked me to get him a copy of 'The Sunday Companion' of the 16th April 1932, as it had a picture of the Grand-father and his family at dinner. After a great deal of trouble I have managed to get a copy from the Editor of 'The Sunday Companion' as a favour on my telling them that it was a picture of the Grand-father. This picture has been shown to all here, also to Frank, Ernest etc. 'The Sunday Companion' publishers do not keep old copies for long, and the one wanted for the 16th April 1932 is a long way back for them. The picture is beautifully drawn and arranged showing very careful details. The words of description are splendid and very well deserved as the Grandfather's and Uncle Frank's good works have lasted so long. I am sending you the original picture, a typed sheet of the article, and three rough pencil tracings. Later on when you have done with it I would like to have the original picture back to send it to Hugh, as it was Hugh that found out about this. There is lovely sun here [?] and I are getting on well with the new foundations of the greenhouse and hope to make a lot of progress at it during the Easter holidays. I have been trying to help with typing some of his letters. I hope you are all keeping fairly well and taking care of yourselves.
Yours ever
C.W.Gordon
Holly Lodge
East Molesy
Surrey
Wednesday 12th April 1933
Dear Charles
It was very good and thoughtful of you to have returned the original of the Grandfather's picture and two of the tracings everso many thanks I am going to keep one of the tracings for myself and send the other and the original picture on to Hugh by tomorrow's South African Mail. He will be very glad to get it. They were very busy in the Editor's office of the 'Sunday Companion' when I called, and I did not get an opportunity of asking where the original picture is and whom it belongs to, but if I hear anything more of interest about it I will be sure to let you know.
I have been watering the plants in the garden every evening and some of them have been shooting up fine, we mowed the lawn for the first time on last Saturday and there was quite a large amount of fresh green grass. Judging from the fine show of white blossom it should be a good apple & plum year. A fresh supply of cement and sand arrived here from the builders this morning, ready for [?] & me during Easter time.
I hope you all have a good Easter
All good wishes
C.W.Gordon
Mr Buckland Sir
I am ashamed of you as ort to be as is thought to be a Natteralist about them ere lions in Daniels den. Yes they hev fine Manes no doubt in the Pictur and you ar all right Sir about the [?] of the 3 year old at our establishement Mr Jamrach as gos in for the ould testiment he says they niver had South African black manes in Nebukednezers country. You may hev seed the Maneless lion as was in the Zoological sum years back and cum from North of India. Well I tuk my missus a Whitmunday to the Kademy and seed the pictur cost me two bob and a Whituesday we went to the british Museum free gratis and tuk her into the [?] where Nebukednezers hartist has drawed in stone the Assisirrian Lions in a way as shows that he observed ther nature and must have bin the sort that ort to have med a mil of Daniel and they have no more Manes nor the Maneless lions as are now in North Indier. Its all right what you say of the Kademy hartists that they should observe nature more and I says they should not go to the Cap to get lions for Daniels den but other folk besides hartists should look to nature and the geograffical dustribution of beastes.
Your humble Servant