From J. V. Carus 15 November 1866
Summary
JVC proposes to correct Bronn’s mistakes [in his translation of Origin], but will not add his own notes.
Asks CD to write a note on Nägeli’s pamphlet [Entstehung und Begriff] for the revised edition.
Also requests biographical information for an encyclopedia article he has been asked to write.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5279 |
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 |
To B. J. Sulivan 31 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.
Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?
Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.
Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5330 |
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
| Date: | 3 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | The Natural History Museum (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
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 |
From Fritz Müller 2 August 1866
Summary
Gives some observations on orchids and on some plants which seem to be dichogamous.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B33, 33a; DAR 157a: 81, 102; DAR 142: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5173 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hunt, Robert | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | [X] |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Hunt, Robert | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
