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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

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  • … letter from B.  J.  Sulivan, 11 March 1871  and n.  8. According to Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
  • … DAR 242), Henrietta Emma Darwin was ill with measles from 4 to 25 January 1871. CD refers …

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

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  • … to Leonard Darwin . CD refers to Emma Darwin , Sophia Sulivan , and Catherine Sabine …
  • … married William Wallace Trench . A note in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 21 June 1870  …

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

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  • … on 14 September 1878 to visit her family in Massachussetts ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, 17 September [1878] (DAR 219.1: 115)). …

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

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  • … Elizabeth went to Bournemouth on 25 January 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
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