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 |
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- … to you and M rs . Darwin as well as all your party. The last account of your health was so …
- … to say I can say the same of all our party so I hope Bournemouth will suit us all— A few …
- … them. It would amuse you to see me with a party of five or six young ladies working away …
- … remained on the Beagle while Sulivan and a party of men surveyed Chiloé (see Journal of …
- … Old Stokes”— There is another lad of that party who has been at the Falkland Station, and …
- … Island of Chiloe, after you left our boat party, when after three weeks wet by night and …
- … egg hunting for the pudding finding the party in the Priest’s house, which a kind head …
From B. J. Sulivan 9 June 1879
Summary
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097 |
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- … to M rs . Darwin & yourself and all your party. I hope your dear little grandchild that I …
- … and since then at one time our whole party, of four, were unable to walk. I have had …
- … months on crutches: so we have been a lame party: though now I trust all right again. You …
- … I have not heard from any of our old party for some months. Mellersh was very unwell and …
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1870
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.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7246 |
From B. J. Sulivan 3 November 1878
Summary
Encloses a letter [missing] on the progress of the Fuegians.
His eldest son has married.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11734 |
From B. J. Sulivan 29 November 1881
Summary
BJS is looking forward to reading the life of Lyell [K. M. Lyell, Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols. (1881)].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 316 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13519 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … regards to M rs . Darwin and all your party | Believe me | very sincerely yours | B. J. …
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 18 March [1864]
Summary
Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4431 |
From B. J. Sulivan [14–20] April [1878]
Summary
Asks whether CD wishes to join other old "Beagles" in supporting an orphan grandson of Jemmy Button.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14–20] Apr [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11459 |
From B. J. Sulivan 17 December 1870
Summary
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7395 |
From B. J. Sulivan 7 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9273 |
From B. J. Sulivan 16 August [1867]
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].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 289 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5607 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … kind remembrances to M rs Darwin & all your party Believe me | very sincerely yours | B. …
From B. J. Sulivan 29 September 1881
Summary
Gives further details on his grapes.
Tells of his recent movements and state of health.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13363 |
From B. J. Sulivan 23 September [1864]
Summary
BJS’s health much improved by his continental tour.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 283 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4622 |
From B. J. Sulivan 1 July 1870
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.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7260 |
From B. J. Sulivan 20 June 1872
Summary
Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.
Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8393 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1866
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.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5133 |
From B. J. Sulivan 20 May 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for the loan of a book;
discusses his family’s health and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 311 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12612 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … regards to M rs . Darwin, and all your party. | Believe me | yours very sincerely | B. …
From B. J. Sulivan 23 January 1872
Summary
Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8175 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … our kind regards to M rs . Darwin & all your party | Believe me very sincerely yours | B J …
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 30 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Swiss—’; another note on 28 July reads, ‘Party from Swiss. ’ It is not known exactly which …
From B. J. Sulivan 3 December 1881
Summary
BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 317 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13527 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … agents at North German Ports & Riga saw a party of poor Fuegians exhibited in Zoological …
From B. J. Sulivan 2 January [1880]
Summary
Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11818 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … new years to you & M rs . Darwin and all your party. I think you will be amused with a few …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Sulivan, B. J. |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Anne Schlabach Burkhardt (1916–2012)
Summary
Anne Burkhardt was associated with the Darwin Correspondence Project from its beginning in 1974, and her contribution to its work helped ensure the regular publication of the volumes of correspondence. Anne was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and studied…
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- … it became positively dangerous to attend Bennington cocktail parties, for even the slightest hint of …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … be attended to by requiring a clean bill of health in both parties before marriage, and ultimately …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … at the botanical lectures, excursions, and undergraduate parties organised by the professor of …
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. They show how …
Darwin and vivisection
Summary
Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 6 hits
- … that time – the frequent predatory excursions of minor parties of Indians have prevented the …
- … was settled in full independence of Mr H’s dictation – parties of them resorted to him with …
- … as many as might come to him to beg for it – as the former parties had done – [ f.184v p.76 ] …
- … by any other designation than “Excursions” of picnic ^parties^ “on pleasure bent” &c. …
- … been drawn up for us – by able and disinterested third parties – than draw these for one another – …
- … ] Arbitrator between both parties – but felt disposed to lean to the …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … teaching under certain conditions, but the Bill left many parties unsatisfied and the controversy …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
Summary
Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … an earlier passage, describes it as a race from which both parties benefit. Nowadays, we are …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 1 hits
- … . In Castelnau, Francis de, Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud … …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … Darwin spent over a month corresponding with the various parties, repeatedly revising his own letter …
