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Salmon Fisheries Office
4 Old Palace Yard
Westminster SW

Your Royal Highness

I have taken the liberty of sending you a sample of American oysters which I have just received. They are in a small box forwarded by rail. Those at the top of the box come from Prince Edward Island. Those at the bottom from Chesapeake Bay and are sent by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington.
I have a project with Mr. Pope (one of the great men in Prince Edwards Island) to import large quantities of these Oysters which abound in about the island as food for the British Public. I should like to have your (private) opinion of them both cooked and raw. I have kept some of the Oysters intending to breed from them if possible and establish a breed in England

Yours ever

Frank Buckland

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

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

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

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

31 March 187-

37 Albany St

Your Royal Highness

I beg to enclose you my report on the Fox of which I trust you will approve. Thanks for asking me to the gardens tomorrow. They tell me I must wait till the weather gets a little more settled.

Yours most obliged

Frank Buckland

Secretary of State and Home Department

June 20 [187-]

Your Royal Highness

I am anxious about the Deer Horns you so kindly allowed me to describe. Shall I send them at once to you at Windsor or should I send them to [Rulich?] to be mounted. He might then bring them down with the Stags foot, would you like them mounted on a stuffed head or on a bit of board.
I enclose your article by General Walker of Berlin

Your obedient and obliged

Frank Buckland

I returned home
at 4.15am this morning

Salmon Fisheries Office
4 Old Palace Yard
Westminster S.W

July 19 [187-]

Your Royal Highness

I am afraid I shall not be able to meet you at the Zoological tomorrow morning as I must go to Brighton to help them on to get the Aquarium opened on the 27th. When at the Duke of Northumberland's fishing trap on the [?] last Tuesday I [saw?] the fish you have received swimming about alive and I asked the conservators to send him to you. I am glad you got him all right. At page 8 of the report sent herewith you will see what is going on in the [?] whence came your trout. If you see the Duke of Northumberland please talk to him about it.

Yours most
obedient and obliged

Frank Buckland

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

37 Albany St

Wed Oct. 31 187-

Your Royal Highness

I am indeed most obliged to Your Royal Highness for your great kindness in sending me up the magnificent Pike which the Fishman has brought with the greatest care. I have made two models of this splendid fish (one I will beg leave to present (when cast) to Your Royal Highness to put in the Hall at Cumberland Lodge. I will get Mr. Rolfe to pain the cast for you, the other cast I propose to place in my Museum as presented by you. The fish himself, I will get stuffed. It has indeed been a treat to cast such a beauty and I am most obliged.

Salmon Fisheries Office
4 Old Palace Yard
Westminster SW

Nov. 25 [187-]

Your Royal Highness

I called upon Mr Gould last night. He will be very pleased to show you his Humming birds tomorrow Friday as you have been good enough to appoint.
I told Gould you would call between 12 and 1.
His address is
26 Charlotte St
(corner of Great Russell St) British Museum

Yours most obedient

Frank Buckland