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To B. J. Sulivan   10 June 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

June 10th. 79

My dear Sulivan.

The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful, & had it not occurred would have been to me quite incredible. Many thanks for the magazine.—1

You have all been in a lamentable state & I am very sorry to hear it; though you now seem all fairly well again.—2 I have not been very well of late & my scientific work tires me more than it used to do; but I have nothing else to do, & whether one is worn out a year or two sooner or later signifies but little. Farewell my old friend— I have had to answer an abominable number of letters, so will say no more, except to beg you to remember us very kindly to Lady Sulivan.3

My dear Sulivan | Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin

1
With his letter of 9 June 1879, Sulivan had sent CD a copy of the South American Missionary Magazine that included an account of developments at the mission station in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.
3
Sulivan’s wife was Sophia Sulivan.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12101,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12101