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From V. O. Kovalevsky   [after 21 November 1880]1

14 Jermyn Street St. James

Dear Sir

After nearly nine years absence I am again for a few days in London and should be very happy to see You for an hour or so.2 My life was not a very quiet one, but now I have settled in Moscow, where they proposed me the chair of Geology at the University.3 I have heard this Sunday from Mrs Huxley4 You are going well, have had a glance of Your new book5 and shall be glad to see You before leaving London, if possible Thursday.

Yours truly | W. K⁠⟨⁠owalevsky⁠⟩⁠

1
The year is established by the appointment of Kovalevsky at Moscow University (see n. 3, below); the day and month are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 25 November [1880]; in 1880, the Sunday before 25 November was 21 November.
2
Kovalevsky may have visited Down on 29 November (letter from Emma 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]).
3
Kovalevsky was appointed associate professor at Moscow University in 1880 (DSB).
5
Movement in plants.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12837,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12837