To G. H. Darwin 21 January 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Jan 21 1882
My dear George,
As soon as you have 5 minutes to spare, read what follows. Kowalevsky writes “I have a great service to beg of you, is it not possible to have for a few days the paper of your son George about the moon, I could not get it in London as it is out of print, if your son has some spare copies I will feel most obliged if he may spare one for me”.1
If you can do so, I also should be particularly obliged. He is now Prof of Geology at Moskow and no doubt his wife will be able to explain your paper to him.2 His address is
11 Rue de la Tour des Dames
Paris
where he will remain for some days. If you cannot spare a copy let me have the reference to send him.
I hope you are not utterly dead with your work. | Yours affectly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, George Howard. 1879b. On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet. [Read 18 December 1879.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 171 (1880): 713–891.
Summary
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13631
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 113
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13631,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13631.xml
