To B. J. Sulivan 18 February [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb 18th
My dear Sulivan
I have been extremely interested by the Photographs: that of Jemmy’s son is wonderfully like what I remember of poor Jemmy himself.—2 Thanks for curious case about the stallions & your mentioning this makes me ask, on the bare though improbable chance of your having observed horses fighting or seen marks of old wounds, whether they especially try to bite each other’s necks?3 Do you know anything about male seals fighting together?
Do not of course answer unless you happen by an odd chance to have any such knowledge.—
With many thanks | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
CD thanks BJS for photographs of Jemmy [Button]’s son
and for the curious case about stallions, which leads him to ask whether BJS has observed that horses when fighting try especially to bite each other’s necks.
Does he know anything about male seals fighting?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5889
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Bartholomew James Sulivan
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5889,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5889.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
