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To V. O. Kovalevsky   20 May [1867]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

May 20

Dear Sir

I write merely a line to acknowledge your note of May 14 & to say how sorry I am that the proof sheets were lost.2 But you will have received I hope by this time the clean sheets & my note.3 They were sent via France, but I hope this will not cause a second loss. In both cases the sheets were sent open at the 2 ends.4

Dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 14 May 1867.
2
CD had sent proof-sheets of Variation to Kovalevsky for his Russian translation. See letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 14 May 1867.
3
CD sent revised sheets on 1 May (see letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 May [1867]), and clean sheets with his letter of 16 May [1867]. Kovalevsky received the revised sheets on 14 May and the clean sheets shortly after (see letters from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 May 1867 and [after 24? May 1867]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5541,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5541