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Darwin Correspondence Project

To V. O. Kovalevsky   2 January [1882]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Jan 2d 1881.

My dear Sir

I thank you for the Photograph & your kind new year wishes, which I very heartily return.2 I hope that your [illeg] affairs prosper, & I am well assured that you deserve that they shd. prosper.— As for myself I am fairly well, but feel very old with failing strength.

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

CD misdated the letter; the year is established by the postmark.
Kovalevsky had sent a photograph of Aleksey Ivanovich Butakoff; it has not been found (see Correspondence vol. 29, letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 30 December 1881).

Summary

Thanks VOK for a photograph and his New Year wishes.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13596,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13596.xml

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