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From V. O. Kovalevsky   [after 21 November 1880]

Summary

Wishes to see CD.

He has been proposed as Professor of Geology at the University of Moscow.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 21 Nov 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12837

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  • Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 November 1880] (DAR 219.9: 253)); he and his wife, Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , later met CD for lunch at Queen Anne Street, London (see letter to G. H. Darwin, 9 December [1880] ). …

To V. O. Kovalevsky   25 November [1880]

Summary

Will be pleased to have VOK come to Down any day.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:  25 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  Institut Mittag-Leffler
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12855

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To Francis Darwin   16 and 17 May 1881

Summary

Some papers have arrived for FD.

Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.

Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  16 and 17 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13159

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  • Darwin 's maid, had been taken ill at the beginning of May ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3 May 1881] ; DAR 219.9: 263). John Ferguson McLennan died at Hayes Common, Kent, on 16 June 1881 ( ODNB ); George had visited him in Davos, Switzerland, in 1880 ( letter from Elizabeth Darwin to G. H. …
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