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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
20 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
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".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
30 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
28 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Has looked at BJS’s grapes. Can give no explanation of the case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
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)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project