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DCP-LETT-3763

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 278
Summary:

Arranges to come to Down on the 21st if CD is well enough.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3775

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 276
Summary:

Confirms arrangements for his trip to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3968

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 280
Summary:

Thinks he may be appointed Commodore commanding the Squadron on the west coast of S. America. Wishes to leave England for his health’s sake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3976

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 281
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-429

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1838
Source of text:
DAR 39: 18–19
Summary:

Reports arrival at Falklands; weather conditions, and unsuccessful search he made for a geological formation CD had seen. Describes cliffs, streams, rocks, and lines of elevation; includes two drawings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4431

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 282
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4622

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 283
Summary:

BJS’s health much improved by his continental tour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4831

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 284
Summary:

Reports on the funeral of Robert FitzRoy.

His own health has deteriorated and he must give up his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4844

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 285
Summary:

Would like to call on CD for an hour or so before leaving London to settle in Bournemouth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5133

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 286
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5325

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 287
Summary:

Discusses the South American mission.

Has been busy digging out fossil leaves from local Eocene deposits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5357

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 288
Summary:

Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].

BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5607

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 289
Summary:

Discusses a rare shell found by BJS on the Beagle voyage, an account of which has just been written by Davidson [possibly in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 20 (1867): 81–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-566

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 274
Summary:

Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5822

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5873

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6026

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 292
Summary:

Writes of his son’s affairs.

Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-675

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 26–7, 39: 66–7, 46.1: 70–4
Summary:

Describes siege [of Montevideo].

Reports on appearance and habits of horses and cattle of Falkland Islands; wild rabbits and pigs. Geology of the Falklands, especially of West Island. Discusses supposed discovery of coal. Has sent fossil specimens to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7246

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 293
Summary:

Tells of his health and family matters.

Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.

Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7260

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 294
Summary:

Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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