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 |
From B. J. Sulivan 19 March 1868
Summary
Writes of his son’s affairs.
Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6026 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]
Summary
Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.
Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5873 |
From William Blenkiron Jr [c. February 1868?]
Summary
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
| Author: | William Blenkiron, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5340 |
From F. B. Johnston 9 March 1873
Summary
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
| Author: | F. B Johnston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 183–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8803 |
To W. W. Reade 21 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.
Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,
and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Asks about African ideas of beauty.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
| Date: | 21 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6754 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 March 1874
Summary
"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of Sphinx to Hedychium gardnerianum.
Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.
G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.
Huxley is well.
JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.
Lyell frail.
Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.
"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 195–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9371 |
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 |
To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (3) |
| Blenkiron, William, Jr | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Johnston, F. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
| Blenkiron, William, Jr | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
