To B. J. Sulivan 20 March 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
March 20th 1881
My dear Sulivan
It was very kind in you to answer & interest not only me but all my family by your very curious account of the Fuegians.—1 It is truly wonderful what you say about their honesty & their language.—2 I certainly shd. have predicted that not all the Missionaries in the world could have done what has been done.—
You say nothing about your own health, which I hope may be fair. I am very sorry to hear about your daughter.3
I have no news about myself: my life is like clock-work working away at what little I can do more in Science.—
We are growing very old men—or at least I feel so.—
Believe me, my dear Sulivan | Yours ever very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for BJS’s account of the Fuegians. CD would have predicted that "not all the missionaries in the world could have done what has been done".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13092
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Bartholomew James Sulivan
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sulivan family (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13092,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13092.xml