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From B. J. Sulivan   10 February [1863]

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Sends some tickets so that CD’s son might see [an unspecified] model.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 281
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3976

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  • … From B.  J.  Sulivan   10 February [1863] …
  • … America (see letter from B.  J.  Sulivan, 4 February [1863] ); he was unsuccessful in his …
  • … letter and the letter from B.  J.  Sulivan, 4 February [1863] . The reference is to Horace …

From Bartholomew James Sulivan   18 March [1864]

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Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Mar [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 282
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4431

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  • … vol.  11, letters from B.  J.  Sulivan, 4 February [1863] and 10 February [1863] and n.   …

Wilooshwahwilis (b. c. 1863)

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  • 1863 Orphan in the South American Mission Society orphanage at Ushuaia in the Beagle Channel, Patagonia. Renamed Orphie Loftus. Married Alfred Mahteen in October 1879. Letter from B. J. Sulivan, …

From B. J. Sulivan   23 September [1864]

Summary

BJS’s health much improved by his continental tour.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Sept [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 283
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4622

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  • 1863 ( ibid. ); some of the reforms he proposed are summarised in Sulivan ed.  1896, pp.  423–4. See also letter from B.  J.   …

From Arthur Mellersh   30 November [1862]

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He is going to S. America as captain of a ship. Offers to bring back fossils for CD and B. J. Sulivan.

He is going to domesticate the Patagonian bird "something like a guinea fowl" in Sussex. He shot the only Beagle specimen.

Author:  Arthur Mellersh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 171.1: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3836

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  • 1863). Bartholomew James Sulivan provided CD with an account of his fossil find at Rio Gallegos, Patagonia, in 1845 (see Correspondence vol.  3, letter from B.  J.   …

To the Lords of the Admiralty   [2–4 July 1866]

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Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Admiralty
Date:  [2–4 July 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 25–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5142

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  • B.  J. Sulivan, 27 June 1866  and n.  7). George Henry Richards served with Sulivan as lieutenant on HMS Philomel (Sulivan ed.  1896, p.  56); he became hydrographer to the Admiralty in 1863 ( …
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