16 APPENDIX. 



With a view of showing that Mr. Hawkins could adopt the 

 language of the most cringing adulation, as well as that of the 

 coarsest bullying, just as it chanced to suit his purpose, I here 

 insert some passages from the correspondence between him- 

 self and Dr. Buckland, written at the time during which the 

 negociation with the British Museum for the purchase of the 

 collection was pending. 



No. 8. 



" Clifford St., July 5th, 1834. 

 " I beg you to leceive my sincere regards. This afternoon I have been 

 told by the Revd. Secretary at the British Museum, that the Trustees ex- 

 pressed much regret that the sum which* my collection was confessedly 

 worth, exceeded their ability, and that it would be most agreeable to them 

 if Government would take up the question. You have obliged me already, 

 and this emboldens me to solicit another favour at your hands. Would 



you give me a letter of introduction to the of , or any other 



high personage who may have influence with Her Majesty's Ministers? 

 This, with a direct and energetic letter from yourself, would effect all that 

 we can desire, — the preservation to the nation of my giant collection. I 

 am aware that I take a great liberty, but I am also persuaded that you do 

 feel some intellectual interest in the success of my design. This, with the 

 assurance that I have of the ready attention with which the great flatter 

 your wishes, induce me to place all my reliance upon you. 



The Rev. Prof. Buckland. 



No. 9. 



" Bloomsbury Square, May 13th, 1833. 



" Permit me to obsei*ve that I would you had yourself determined the 

 money part as well as the rest of the question, although I must defer to 

 the judicious — the delicate motive that induced you to decline doing so, — 

 and to add that I have so arranged that portion of my collection purposed 

 for the Museum, that you and Mr. Mantell could arrive at an estimate in 

 one hour, which I am sure Mr. Mantell would spare for such an occasion. 

 If any variation of opinion about price happen between you, let that di- 

 fference be split, as the commercial world nervously calls it ; for how much 

 debate and inconvenience, loss of time, &c., the presence of a third party 

 would occasion. In truth, my ark — my idol — is in your hands ; you are 

 its most efficient keeper, and to nominate another would be unnecessary, 

 and as humiliating to me as two co-temporaneous high priests to the Jews. 

 Besides, I shall from time to time make such additions, (perhaps by way 

 of donation to the British Museum) to the collection, as will — am I rash ? 

 — transmit my name with your's— the founder, the real founder of the col- 

 lection there — to posterity. 



The Rev. Prof. Buckland. 



Mr. Young sent me copies of the letters which he had re- 

 ceived from Mr. Hawkins, under an idea that when I saw the 

 warlike aspect.of his intentions I should be frightened, and feel 

 the expediency of coming to terms with him if possible. The 

 only effect however, produced, was that their perusal quite 



