To B. J. Sulivan 22 April 1878
Summary
Will be happy to subscribe to support Jemmy FitzRoy Button. Supposes BJS has considered whether it would be a real kindness to educate the boy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 22 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11481 |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
To B. J. Sulivan 10 June 1879
Summary
The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 10 June 1879 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12101 |
To B. J. Sulivan 15 October 1879
Summary
Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 15 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12258 |
To B. J. Sulivan 3 January 1880
Summary
Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.
The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.
Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 515 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399 |
To B. J. Sulivan 16 May [1880]
Summary
Lends BJS Titus Coan’s Adventures in Patagonia [1880].
Thanks him for copies of the missionary journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 16 May [1880] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12608 |
To B. J. Sulivan 17 November 1880
Summary
BJS’s case is one of the direct action of the pollen of one variety on the mother plant of another variety. Gives references to analogous cases.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 17 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12825 |
To B. J. Sulivan 20 March 1881
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".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 20 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13092 |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 September [1881]
Summary
BJS’s grape case is a mystery.
CD is still able to work a little but does not expect to do much more of any interest to naturalists.
The death of his brother [E. A. Darwin] was a heavy loss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 30 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13365 |
To B. J. Sulivan 28 October [1881]
Summary
Has looked at BJS’s grapes. Can give no explanation of the case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 28 Oct [1881] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13439 |
To B. J. Sulivan 1 December 1881
Summary
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 1 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13525 |
To Bartholomew James Sulivan 24 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks BJS for account of Mendoza earthquake.
FitzRoy sent CD the last London Review [& Weekly J. Polit.] and he read the article on Genesis, but feels it is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 24 May [1861] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3156 |
To B. J. Sulivan [9 May 1865]
Summary
Would rejoice to see BJS at Down, but explains that he can only spend short spells of time in his company if he comes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | [9 May 1865] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (January 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4831F |
To B. J. Sulivan 31 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.
Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?
Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.
Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 31 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5330 |
To B. J. Sulivan 15 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]
and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5365 |
To B. J. Sulivan 18 February [1868]
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?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5889 |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
To B. J. Sulivan 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 2 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7263 |
To B. J. Sulivan 20 December [1870]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 20 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7400 |
To B. J. Sulivan 13 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 13 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7579 |