From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 September [1870]1
31 Bloomsbury Str. Bedf. Sq.
Sept. 5.
Dear Sir
I received to day from the Library of the R. Soc. the book my wife wanted and we are both very thankfull for Your kindness.2 As the price charged by Murray for the first set of casts was very reasonable I think it would be better simply to order him a set and he will charge for it no doubt about the same price as he did for the “Domesticated Animals”.—3 My brother will be certainly delighted by Your mentioning his investigation in Your book, at all event I’ll write him today, perhaps he will have something more to communicate to You.4 I ascertained that Dr. Carpenter will dredge between Malta and Gibraltar5
Your very truly | W. Kovalevsky
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jakob. 1829. Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum. Königsberg: Borntraeger.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Will order the first set of casts from Murray.
Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.
His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7317
- From
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Bloomsbury St, 31
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 80
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7317,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7317.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18