To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 June [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 2d
My dear Sir
You have been very kind about Körte; but I am sorry you ran the risk of sending it. I return it by this Post, & I hope to Heaven it may reach you safely.— I think I have found cause of absence of passage: there must have been a 2nd. Edit in 1829, for Köppen gives this date & refers to a second Part by Sydow which does not appear in the Edit of 1828.2
You must not take more trouble, but if ever you shd. come across in any Library the Edit. of 1829 pray look to p. 33, & probably you will find a short passage, which wd. be of value to me.—3
I quite agree with you about the savage brutality of the Versailles army, but on the other hand I must think that the Communists have made themselves everlastingly infamous.—4
I shall be very happy to see you in England.5 I am far from well today, so no more, except once again to thank you.—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Körte, Franz. 1828. Die Strich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke, ihre Beschreibung, Verheerung in jetzigen und früheren Zeiten, und die Mittel zu ihrer Vertilgung. Berlin: August Rücker.
Körte, Franz Friedrich Ernst. 1829. Strich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke vom Eie an beobachtet und beschrieben. Berlin: August Rücker.
Summary
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7796
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Institut Mittag-Leffler
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7796,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7796.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19