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Letter Signed, with autograph postscript, to “Dear Madam”, about the “dog stealers [who] are always selling dogs to the undergraduates”, advising her to inform the police in Oxford and Cambridge, sending photographs.. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, traces of former mounting, in good condition. Fishery Department, Home Office, 17 February 1873. “… I shall be glad to show you my monkeys &c.” Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), pisciculturist and naturalist, inspector of salmon fisheries, author of Curiosities of Natural History and other works.