Sir!

I am exceedingly thankfull for your kind offer to procure me some books from the library of the Royal Society;¹ and though I really fear that I am misusing your kindness, but the book is so indispensable to me, that I decide myself to profit by it. We ascertained today, that the Royal Society is opened the whole month of September, and the book for which I should ask you an order is Jacobi. Fundamenta nova theoriae Functionum ellipticarum.² It is not a rare one and could be easily replaced in the improbable case of some misfortune happening to it.

I hope, that you will allow me in the course of the autumn to express you personally my thanks for your kindness. Remember me kindly to M^rss. Darwin and the Ladies.³ I am glad to hear, that your excursion to the country has done your health a great deal of good.⁴

Believe me Sir | Your’s truly | Sophie Kowalewsky

P.S. May I ask You Dear Sir if You know something of the dredging expedition of M^r Carpenter, I know he is at Gibraltar with the Porcupine, but will he enter the Meditteranean or confine himself only to the Atlantic,⁵ I received to day a letter from my brother asking me where M^r. Carpenter is; he would not shun a trip from Naples even to Tunis or Algeria if he has a chance o meeting him there.—⁶

Yours truly | W Kovalevsky⁷