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To V. O. Kovalevsky   2 January [1882]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Jan 2d 1881.

My dear Sir

I thank you for the Photograph & your kind new year wishes, which I very heartily return.2 I hope that your [illeg] affairs prosper, & I am well assured that you deserve that they shd. prosper.— As for myself I am fairly well, but feel very old with failing strength.

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Postmark: JA 2 | 82

1
CD misdated the letter; the year is established by the postmark.
2
Kovalevsky had sent a photograph of Aleksey Ivanovich Butakoff; it has not been found (see Correspondence vol. 29, letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 30 December 1881).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added blue ink

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13596,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13596