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From V. O. Kovalevsky   6 September [1872]1

Bournemouth

6 September

Dear Sir

I got Your letter only to day, the Brit. Museum is closed on the first week of September and therefore I got away from London to the sea side, and having much to do with tertiaries I selected Bournemouth, as the centre of the Hampshire basin.2 On Monday I will be back to London, where I expect letters from Russia about the translation.3 I will be exceedingly glad to visit You some day after the 10th Sept and will inform You of the day by letter.4

Your very truly | W. Kowalevsky

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 10 September 1872.
2
The letter from CD has not been found. The Hampshire Basin dates from sixty-five to twenty-three million years ago, during the Tertiary Period. For Kovalevsky’s work at the British Museum, see the letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, [after 8 June 1872] and n. 2.
3
Kovalevsky was translating Expression into Russian ([Kovalevsky] trans. 1872).
4
Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Kovalevsky visited Down on 22 September 1872.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8513,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8513