From C. L. Denison 17 January [1874]1
Observatory, | East Sheen,
Jany. 17th.
Sir,
If you have still “Varieties of Vice Regal Life” by you to refer to, you will see there (Vol. 1. page 361) that the number of Pitcairn Islanders brought to Norfolk Island was 194:—2 since I received your note, I have looked into my dear husband’s note book of his two visits to Norfolk Island, to see if I can find there any further information on the points you mention, but I am sorry to say that I can find none. He visited Norfolk Island twice, once in Septer 1857, about fifteen months after the Pitcairners’ first arrival there,— and again in 1859: but he does not mention their actual numbers on either occasion. None of them returned to Pitcairn’s Island till after his last visit;—3 and, as we left Australia early in the year ’61,4 I have had little opportunity since of hearing of them. I should think however, that you would have no difficulty in obtaining such later statistical information as you wish for, through the Colonial Office.5
I remain | Your obedt. servt. | C. L. Denison
Footnotes
Bibliography
Denison, William. 1870. Varieties of vice-regal life. 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9246
- From
- Caroline Lucy Denison
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Observatory, East Sheen
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 158
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9246,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9246.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22