From Charles Shaw 3 October 1865
Summary
Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.
| Author: | Charles Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4908 |
To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]
Summary
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 8 May [1865]
Summary
Reports on the funeral of Robert FitzRoy.
His own health has deteriorated and he must give up his work.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4831 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 and n. 4. Sulivan had taken six months’ leave in 1864 because of poor health (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from B. J. Sulivan, 18 March [1864] and 23 September [1864] ). See also Sulivan ed. 1896, p. 378. The Sulivans retired to Bournemouth in Hampshire ( County families 1872– …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Shaw, Charles | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Shaw, Charles | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
