To G. H. Darwin 9 December [1880]1
6. Q. A. St
Dec. 9th
My dear George
The Kowalevskys have been to lunch & a very interesting visit it was—2 Madame has been greatly interested by your papers & if you can spare a copy of your last one do send her one to “13 Montagu Place Russell Sqr.”—3 I never saw such a funny little woman she bubbled over with enthusiasm about Sir W. Thomson’s papers & work— She was indignant with Cayley & declares that he makes his work far more difficult than it really is.—4
Yours affect | C. Darwin
I am half-dead with K. grating Voice.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, George Howard. 1880. On the analytical expressions which give the history of a fluid planet of small viscosity, attended by a single satellite. [Read 18 March 1880.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 30 (1879–80): 255–78.
Koblitz, Ann Hibner. 1983. A convergence of lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia, scientist, writer, revolutionary. Boston: Birkhäuser.
Kovalevskaya, Sofia Vasilyevna (Sophie Kowalevski). 1889. Sur le problème de la rotation d’un corps solide autour d’un point fixe. Acta Mathematica 12: 177–232.
Summary
The Kovalevskys have been to lunch.
Madame Kovalevsky is greatly interested in GHD’s papers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12902
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 101
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12902,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12902.xml