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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
22 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953)
Summary:

"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.

I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Asks VOK to translate a passage from Franz Körte, Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke [1828], p. 33.

Deplores the "fearful piece of tyranny" that is obstructing publication of Descent in Russia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
17 May [1871]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Interested in W. Hepworth Dixon’s Free Russia, but does not know "whether he is to be trusted".

VOK’s hard work in palaeontology will prepare him for future original investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
2 June [1871]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.

Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
10 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
17 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Cost of plates [for Expression] is greater than expected: £75 per 1000 copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
18 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].

Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
21 May 1873
Source of text:
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 300. Register 1a. Folder 4. P. 1-2 r)
Summary:

VOK’s paper ["Osteology of Hyopotamidae", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 147–65] appears a very valuable one.

Discusses work of VOK’s brother [Alexander] on Sagitta and the ascidians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project