Letter 694
Darwin, C. R. to Admiralty
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Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.
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Down near Bromley | Kent
Saturday 9
My dear Sir
I should be very much obliged if you would kindly forward the accompanying letter to Sulivan in the Philomel, & should you be sending any package, also, the accompanying, paper, which relates to a subject, on which he has made some observations at the Falklands.—
I hope you will excuse me troubling you & believe me | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin.
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9 May was the only Saturday the 9th in 1846. - +
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H.M.S. Philomel, then returning to England, arrived 19 June 1846 (Log of Philomel, Public Record Office, ADM 53/1025). - +
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‘On the geology of the Falkland Islands’ (read 25 March 1846), Collected papers 1: 203–12.