From M. C. Stanley 19 September 1877
Knowsley, | Prescot.
19 Sept/77
Dear Mr Darwin
Count Schouvaloff has been asserting today that your works are still prohibited in Russia. I told him your story as you told it to me, but he thinks I have made a mistake.1 If you would not mind dictating a letter to me stating what you believe to be true, I shd. be much interested to be able to tell him that he was mistaken.2
Still if you prefer to let the matter alone take no notice of my request.
Yr very sincerely | M C Derby
Footnotes
Bibliography
Choldin, Marianna Tax. 1985. A fence around the empire: Russian censorship of western ideas under the tsars. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Grosvenor, Bendor. 2011. Britain’s ‘most isolationist Foreign Secretary’: the fifteenth earl and the Eastern crisis 1876–1878. In Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820–1920: the Derbys and their world, edited by Geoffrey Hicks. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Otte, T. G. 2011. ‘Only wants quiet riding’?: Disraeli, the fifteenth earl of Derby and the ‘war-in-sight’ crisis. In Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820–1920: the Derbys and their world, edited by Geoffrey Hicks. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Summary
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11146
- From
- Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby/Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby/Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Knowsley, Prescot
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 169
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11146,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11146.xml
