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From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 August [1870]¹

31. Bloomsbury Str. Bedford Square.

Dear Sir

I am once more for a short time in England and should be very happy to see You if You could accept my visit.² It is such a long time I had no news from You; after Your letter to Nice in the Spring I wrote You from a small place near Marseille, but having no answer I fear my letter has been lost.³ My wife is gone with her sister to the sea side and I am left alone to make excursions;⁴ if You are not occupied to much to receive visits, I have an intention to go to Bickley⁵ Tuesday and walk from the Station to Down.

I hope to find M^rs. Dawin and the ladies⁶ in good heal.

Yours | truly | W. Kovalevsky

London 15 August

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 7 August [1870].

See letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 7 August [1870].

Neither CD’s letter nor Kovalevsky’s reply has been found.

Kovalevsky refers to Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya and Anna Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya.

Bickley Station is just outside Bromley, Kent, about six miles from Down.

Emma Darwin, Henrietta Emma Darwin, and Elizabeth Darwin.

Summary

Wishes to visit Down.

Letter details

Letter no.: DCP-LETT-7302
From: Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from: London, Bloomsbury St, 31
Source of text: DAR 169: 65
Physical description: ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7302,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7302.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18

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