From V. O. Kovalevsky 30 March 1872
Berlin | Behrenstrasse 13.
30. March. 72.
Dear Sir!
It is a pretty long time, I had no news from You, but knowing that Your Home Secretary is gone I did not write fearing to encroach upon Your time which is much better occupied elsewhere then in letter writing.1 However I am now much interested in the progress of Your new work upon “Expression” and I hope You will entrust it to my care for translation as You have done so kindly with Your former works.2 I have just a faint hope to come this spring to London to finish in the Britisch Museum something I begun last year, but I am by no means sure of it.3 I hope Your health is better now then it was at the time of my visit last year.— This winter I began a comparative miology of the Marsupials,4 but schall interrupt it for the summer to do something in Palaeontology and then finish the Marsupials in future winter; I regret I cannot send You a copy of my Anchiterium, as the plates are ready but the letter press is not yet finisched.5
If the work on “Expression” is in progress I should feel extremely obliged for a pair of proofscheets, as I have now every day some free hours which I should like to employ in translation.—
With compliments to Mrs Darwin
I am | very truly Yours | W. Kowalevsky.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Davitashvili, Leo Shiovich. 1951. V. O. Kovalevsky. 2d edition. Moscow: Academy of Science of the USSR.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich. 1872. Sur l’Anchitherium aurelianense Cuv. et sur l’histoire paléontologique des chevaux. [Read 5 September 1872.] Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 20 (1873), no. 5: 1–73.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Would like to do Russian translation of Expression.
May come to England.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8262
- From
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Berlin
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 90
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8262,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8262.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
