From V. O. Kovalevsky 11 October [1870]1
Octob. 11 Evening.
Dear Sir
I hope this note may reach You in time before You leave Down,2 if such should be the case I will pray You to be so kind and send me the four sheets to my adress in London; we leave England only Saturday afternoon. I shall see Mr. Murray an arrange the payment out sending of casts.3
I hope Miss Darwin is going better4
Yours truly | W. Kovalevsky
P.S. In case this note reaches You to late, that is after Saturday, I shall write another time from Berlin, but the safest thing in this case will be to send the sheets under band poste-restante Berlin where I am sure to receive them.—
I received Your letter at ten in the evening and having no stamps I commit the offence (considered impardonable in England) to send it unpaid, that it may go to morrow by the first train.—
Yours | W. K.
CD annotations
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.
Summary
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7342
- From
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London Bloomsbury St, 31
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 84
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7342,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7342.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18