From William Buckland   16 December 1832

My Dear Sir

I am much obliged by your kind letter of this morning & exceeding vexed that it will be quite impossible for me to accept of your kind proposal for Tuesday as that day is our Audit & I must be on duty in the Chapter House from 10 A.M. to 7 P.M. there remain therefore but 2 methods by which we may contrive a meeting – the first if you can come over to Oxford,& sleep) by 8 9 or 10 or 11 Tuesday evening & sleep at my house & go to Abingdon Wed ^ay morning. The other if you can come to Oxford from Abingdon Wednesday & dine with me & if you must be in Cambridge Thursday go home by a night coach to London Wednesday night – it is provoking that the Cambridge coach goes hence Wednesday.

I shd be much interested to talk over Weymouth with you at this time because the paper on this district is now passing through the press & I have corrected the proofs of 31 sheets & expect another Tuesday – The whole I expect will be about 40 pages 4 ^o. It stands first in the next Vol of the Geol Proc ^gs w ^ch should be ready 2 months hence.

If we do not meet this week I will send to you the proofs that you may at once see what De la Beche & I have said – and if there be any thing you wd like to have inserted in the form of notes-or of an Appendix-if you will put it into the shape of a letter to me I will try to add it in the places to which your observations may relate.

At the moment I am nearly sure that not more than the first 8 pages are printed off - & these are chiefly the introductory & general statements.

Mrs Buckland … in best Regards & in hope of seeing you Tuesday or Wednesday

With you always

Yours sincerely

W.Buckland

[addressed to Cholsey, Wallingford]