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From G. H. Darwin   [23 January 1882]1

Trin Coll

Monday mg.

Dear Father

It is rather difficult to know wh. paper Kovalevsky wants to see as there are 5 papers on same subject, but I have sent a copy of the biggest wh. contains most about moon’s motion.2

The others are in Phil Trans for 79, 80, 81 & two short ones besides in Proceedings for those years3

Yours affec | G H Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 January 1882. In 1882, the Monday following 21 January was 23 January.
2
See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 January 1882. Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky had requested George’s paper ‘about the moon’ in his letter to CD of 18 January [1882]. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was interested in George’s work on the rotation of a viscous or elastic body. The longest of George’s papers was G. H. Darwin 1879b, published in 1880.
3
George is referring to the dates of publication of his papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. G. H. Darwin 1878b and G. H. Darwin 1878d were both published in 1879; G. H. Darwin 1881a was published in 1881. The shorter papers in the Proceedings were G. H. Darwin 1879a and G. H. Darwin 1880.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13639,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13639