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 |
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 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 24 January 1872
Summary
Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8178 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 2 February [1855]
Summary
The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1551 |
From B. J. Sulivan 25 December 1877
Summary
BJS was pleased to see CD’s son [William] and his wife at Charles Langton’s.
His own son is preparing for marriage.
Reports meeting a former Beagle shipmate.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11288 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … University on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). An article titled ‘ …
- … Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). They spent part …
- … Charles Langton ( letter from Sara Darwin to Emma Darwin, [3 December 1877] (DAR 210.5: …
- … and Frances Emma Georgina Sulivan were his daughters. William Erasmus Darwin married Sara …
From B. J. Sulivan 2 October [1862]
Summary
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3749 |
From B. J. Sulivan 9 June 1879
Summary
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097 |
From B. J. Sulivan 14 October [1862]
Summary
Arranges to come to Down on the 21st if CD is well enough.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3763 |
From B. J. Sulivan 18 October [1862]
Summary
Confirms arrangements for his trip to Down.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3775 |
From B. J. Sulivan 10 February [1863]
Summary
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 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October [1862]
Summary
If Wickham remains in town and CD is well enough, BJS thinks they might come about the 22d.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3759 |
From B. J. Sulivan 11 March 1871
Summary
Recounts case of parrot whose talking seems to show "power of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas" [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.].
Has not seen CD’s daughter yet. Hopes the fine weather will continue while she is there [in Bournemouth].
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 96–100, DAR 177: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7571 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 September [1862]
Summary
J. C. Wickham and Arthur Mellersh are in town and BJS wonders whether there is any chance CD might join them.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3741 |
From B. J. Sulivan 29 December 1875
Summary
BJS has just moved.
Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.
Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10331 |
From B. J. Sulivan 25 December 1866
Summary
Discusses the South American mission.
Has been busy digging out fossil leaves from local Eocene deposits.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 287 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5325 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1866
Summary
Reports on his health.
Discusses a surveying expedition under Richard Charles Mayne on which his son will be Second Lieutenant; hopes to arrange for them to excavate some bones in the Falklands.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5133 |
From B. J. Sulivan 20 June 1872
Summary
Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.
Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8393 |
From B. J. Sulivan 29 September 1881
Summary
Gives further details on his grapes.
Tells of his recent movements and state of health.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13363 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin was in the Royal Navy; he was commander of HMS Cruiser , the training ship for ordinary seamen in the Mediterranean, from 1 August 1881 ( Navy list ). HMS Alexandra was the flagship stationed at Malta, the headquarters of the Mediterranean fleet ( ibid. ). It is unclear to which daughter Sulivan refers. In June 1879, he had reported that his two unmarried daughters, Sophia Henrietta Sulivan and Frances Emma …
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