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To be returned

My dear Bull

Mr Johnson was here yesterday and having verified the delivery of more than £1,200 of Granite I signed an order to pay him £1000 in addition to the £200.
The Slate on the margin of the Library cornice will I believe do its work until the Roman cement decays and if the cement be good it will last many years.
I have heard nothing from the Dean about Torrington nor has [Jeff?] He will have told you of my intention to be at Torrington tomorrow, which is now postponed another week by a letter just rec'd announcing a visit on Saturday from 3 [Prussian?] Generals who were staying at Blaise Castle with me during the Bristol meeting and whom I have invited to my house here. My motive for going to Torrington is that I think I see a prospect of carrying into effect with advantage to myself and the college the improvements suggested in the observations in Knight's Survey 1812 of which I inclose a copy.

1. I assume the truth of this report
2. I know from a recent journey 1821 through Torrington that much of the land in that region is susceptible of great improvements by a large outlay of Capital and the New Systems of Husbandry
3. The Natives will adopt neither of these improvement system for 1/2 a Century.
4. I think I could turn my recent information acquired in Agriculture to good account thus if the lands on inspection shd appear capable of Improvement.
   A. Supposing I were to purchase the 21 years lease of the glebes of [Prestacott] and the Glebe of St Giles at a price a little exceeding what can be got from any native non-improving farmer or West Country Gentleman, I assume that the College would at the [?] not change anything for the improvements made; in the 1st 7 years.
   B. Supposing the lease [?] and 2nd be justified in laying out a very large sum of money in drainage to be repaired during my term by improved Rents.
   C. It will be essential to introduce The Scotch and East of England System of Husbandry and a Scotch Tenant with Capital, or a Scotch Bailiff without Capital will be indispensable. I have acquaintance enough with many of the first [practical?] agriculturalists to make it easy for me to find either of these Personages I have also knowledge of what is required to be done if the quality of the land and the climate warrant a large expenditure; for Torrington is on the margin of a bleak and elevated [plain?] I think the plan adopted by Lord Spencer and Lord de Manley wd. be more advantageous than letting to a Scotch Tenant to establish a Partnership with an intelligent Scotch Bailiff on the Plan following
5. The Landlord to find Capital from Stock [implements] etc.
6. The Bailiff to find Management of the entire concern at no Salary
7. The Proceeds to pay all Expenses including the Rent of land at its present value. Proceeds also to pay me 5 or 6 per cent on the Money sunk in the drainage or other permanent improvements and also repay the sunk Capital in 21 years.
8. The [?] of Profit i.e. of [?] Profit after the above deductions to be divided equally between my Bailiff or Partner and myself

Dear Bull,

Do you think the enclosed sufficient? or shall I ask for the sums paid for Poor Rate on all the Estates from 1833 to 1841 it shd. be more satisfactory than a partial statement of 3 Estates. I will write for a full statement if you desire it.
I am just returned from Yorkshire by Noble host made no allusion to [Elliker?] tho I led up to it 2 or 3 times but he said not a word. I shall be home more or less till [1 Oct?] The granit will be finished as to steps and parapet in a few days and look glorious[ly?] [?] is here.

W. Buckland

I send you my only copy of the London Mercury that you may read the Speeches of W. Harcourt and myself on [?] [?] Meeting at [?] and pray return it by next post while it will come free.

Yours
Staverton
Daventry

To Revd. W. Buckland
Corpus Christi College
Oxford

Dover
Thursday
9 J[ul]y 1825

My dearest friend,
We are just arrived after a rough passage and proceed to London tomorrow whether we get there tomorrow night, or not, I cannot tell you, but we shall certainly be at home on Sunday - Your Birds I have brought with me safely to this place, they are well stuffed and I hope you will like them - I saw in [Gagliano's?] Journal this morning that Professor Buckland had been presented by the Emperor of [B] with a small box composed of the fossil tooth of an elephant - We were only 3 days in Paris and are returned. The [?] family were as kind to me as before; they pressed me very much to dine with them to meet Lady [Davy/Barry?] and many English people, but my courage failed me - the last volume of Operman Fossilis was sent to you a little time since by a Quaker whose name I forget. M [?] admires the Duchess of Northumberland extremely he said "elle a beaucoup parle de vous" so that had I been in Paris I should without doubt have [been] introduced to her Grace. I have had another lesson in Lithography, and have brought a cargo of pencils home for Lithography - The Artist I mentioned to you, who draws so well on stone, complimented me very much on my attempt tho he was obliging enough to point out my errors.
I have only heard once from home. I trust I shall find you all well - Every body ought to go abroad to know the happiness of returning home again. I hope this will find you in Oxford as I shall see you soon. I only add that I am missing my dearest friend.
yr. very affectionate
Mary Morland

If unfortunately, you are not in Oxford pray write to me directly you receive this - Has the Chancellor decided?
Ever yours
M.M.

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]

Monsieur,
J’ai reç les objets que vous m’avez adressés et je m’occupe dans ce moment de l’execution des figures demandees dans votre letter avec laquelle vous m’avez honorez.
Je dois vous dire que Monsieur Agassiz avant de partir m’a prie de dessiner pour Monsieur Lyell les figures en grande parti semblables à celles que vous demandez, et il m’a dit que les figures devraient faire partie d’un [chapiter?] que Monsieur Lyell avaid deja ecrit avec l’aide de lui. Mr. Agassiz les esquisses pour ces dessins avaient été deja traces par Monsieur Agassiz lui même et leurs endroits marques. Il ne me reste que l’execution des dessins sur le bois Il me paroit ainsi de votre letter que je ferai les mêmes dessins pour deux ouvrages differents.
Je vous écris cette observation et si vous voudriez bien avoir la bonté de ecrire à Monsieur Agassiz il vous saura certainement mieux expliquer cette affaire
J’ai l’honneur de vous representer les considerations les plus parfaits avec lequelles je suis
Monsieur
Votre tres humble et trés obeisant serosteur
[Jos. Dinkel?]
London 3rd Dec [1836?]

23 Sept 18[42]

Dear Bull

I have desired Mrs Snell to procure a copy of the Poor Rate charged on every Estate in Gt. Torrington for the last 4 years and to employ and pay on account of the Chapter some person for making the required Copy and send the same to you at Ch. Ch. forthwith - I go to Scotland the 20th May and to [Lynn?] the 29 visiting R.Peel on my way home and hope to be here again the 16 or 17 or 18 late.
Parapet and Belfry all finished and looking magnificently Weather Cock Pivot returned this day made by the Chief Engineer at the Paddington Station, of Zinc revolving on Gun Metal which will not rust in 1000 years.

Pusey here

Ever Yours
Wm. Buckland

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

Dear Sir

Your magnificent present will be most highly valued, but I am very sorry that you should have thought it necessary to make so splendid a [?] for the trifling services I have been able to render you, and I assure you that the pleasure of rendering myself useful has far exceeded the little trouble I may have had. I hope you will promised to employ me in future whenever you find [?]

Sheepstead
Jul 26
1826

To the Revd
Professor Buckland
Post Office
Tobermorey
Mull
Scotland

My dear Sir
Thank you for your last kind letter, I am very glad to hear your voyage proceeds so [propiciously?] and that you have had such pleasant companions - it was very provoking to miss of the Giant's Causeway, but I hope a fair voyage to Staffa may compensate in some measure for your disappointment, I congratulate you on your satisfactory visit to Arran I have no doubt your researches will throw much light on those perplexing trap rocks, though Dr Shuttleworth may say what he please of Isap being understood by most Professors its history appears to me very little known by any of them. Dr McCullochs account of Arran is not at all intelligible - I should think the S.E of Sky will prove very interesting is it not there that a Isap Dyke converts some of the Lias into Marble as on the C. of [Ireland?] I wish I had any entertaining matter to communicate to you but I have only everyday occurrences to detail - My dear father is returned from his journeys in high health and, I trust he will continue to be free from gout - I have not heard from Miss Ayling and I begin to be astonished at her silence, but I am known so wonderfully patient under the influence of my watchword "[?] tranquille" that I seldom permit myself to fidgit, tho' Nature certainly did not make me a stoic. I hope you will meet with no greater dangers than occur from the [?] [?] and that your Trap hunting will not lead you into unnecessary risks, if I don't hear from you at no very distant intervals, I shall fancy in spite of "[?] tranquille" that you have tumbled over a Gneiss Precipice, or that a huge [?] has swallowed you or a thousand other terrible disasters. Your last letter was an unexpected pleasure to me, for I did not think to hear quite so soon - I hope I may often have such agreeable surprises. I have found a rare and very pretty shell in the Coppice and my Collection of fresh-water shells comes on very well it is surprising how much thicker a shell becomes when the animal dies in it and it is gradually dried up by the sun and air - I find that the animals inhabiting the shells contain, apparently dispersed over their bodies very minute grains of lime and very pure Carbonate I should imagine, from their [efficasing] so violently with acids. In some the larger grains of lime are as large as a small pin's head will [?] [torn paper] this account for the Shell becoming nearly [Paper missing] twice as thick under the circumstances I have mentioned and I think this may be the reason why many fossil shells which appear to have been originally very fragile are still so well preserved. I have had a present of two tame Plovers and a Curlew. Alas! I found my pretty Curlew lying dead yesterday morning - he was so tame as to eat from my hand and was very handsome with the brightest eyes I ever saw. John Hughes and his wife are staying here Mrs H is a particularly nice woman, very clever and intelligent you would like her very much - I am profitting by Mr Hughes' instructions in sketching and I mean to surprise you by my performances in that way. Mrs [Wraughton?] has just sent me a large ugly Yucca to paint for her - I do not like the employment at all - you had some difficulty in getting your Church [?] when you were here last - if you want any person now, there is a Mr Thomas of [Painbeck?] a gentlemanlike small man who dined here the other day and who I believe is unemployed. I hope a letter from you is now on the road if not pray write when you can that you may return in good health and safely is the constant prayer of
Yrs ever most Truly

M.M.

To Miss Morland
2 Godfrey [?]
Abingdon

Oxford 23 Jan 18[44]

My dear M

I will thank you to put the conditions specified in the 2 following pages with a more legal form and to send the draft of the same to me for perusal together with this Paper in the course of a day or so and that a fair copy may be returned to be by Saturday Eve which I may take to Marsh to be signed on Monday next by [hole in paper] [Mr B] and me
Truly yrs
Wm. Buckland

By how many witnesses should the signatures to supplementary agreement be [appended?]

The following Supplementary Agreement was made this day between the Rev. Dr Buckland and Mr William Buckland of Marsh Gibbon whereas it is stipulated in the agreement between the dated 2 of Sept 1843 and the s[ai]d Dr B shall allow the said W B out of his 2 years Rent the sum of £50 for extra labor in levelling all the Mounds, Banks, Headlands and Ridges and filling up the old ditches and quarries and in raising the furrows and other acts of husbandry necessary to correct and make uniform and complete the fragments of Pasture and Arable that are now [?] but such allowance to the words "H[o]us[e]maidlike Manner" it is now further agreed the place of these indefinite conditions the following shall be [?] viz that whatever sims of money shall be with consent of Dr Buckland in writing money shall be expended in manual labour. For the above named purposes by Mr B and an account of thereof in writing given to Dr B within 1 month after the expenses [?] [?] one half thereof shall be repaid by [?] [?] Dr Buckland out of Rent and with [?] in case Mr B shall not continue on the farm after 29 Feb 1847.
...another fourth part of the total sum so expended shall be repaid by Dr B out of the Rent of the 4th year and further that whatever earth be removed by waggons and carts and horses by Mr B with consent of Dr B in writing and for any of the above [?] [?] the entire cost of horsses and drivers and cars and waggons shall be borne by W B and the entire cost of labor for filling the carts shall be repaid by Dr Buckland to Mr B and it is further agreed that whereas Dr Buckland since the 29 Sept 1843 has purchased 2 more lots of land on the North side of his farm one called long [medal nice?] and measuring 7 1/2 Acres and another lot called The Breath and measuring 5 1/2 Acres the two lots of land shall be rented by Mr B for 4 years ending 29 Sept 1847 at the same price per acre and under the same conditions and modifications therof as to every respect as the [150?] Acres mentioned in the above [?] agreement to which this is a Supplement instead of the indefinite Clause that I shd allow £50 for levelling mounds and filling ditches, quaries etc. if done to my satisfaction substitute a new Clause that I shall pay for the labor of filling such carts and waggons as Mr B shall furnish without charge for them or further Horses and Drivers for the purpose of hauling such mounds and banks of earth as shall be removed by carts and waggons for the purpose of levelling and filling up Ditches and other [?] on the farm also shall have gratis such turfs as may be cut or [?] on my part of [?] [?] of turfing any sorts of any field that may be selected by Dr B the turf to be cut and laid down at the cost of Dr B except the hauling of the same.