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to England for their summer vacation. There
Sonia had the opportunity of making the
acquaintance of many celebrities: George Eliot,
Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, etc.
In George Eliot’s diary, published in her
biography by Mr J. W. Cross, there is a note
dated October 5th, 1869:
‘On Sunday, an interesting Russian pair came
to see us—M. and Madame Kovilevsky (sic):
she, a pretty creature, with charming modest
voice and speech, who is studying mathematics
(by allowance through the aid of Kirchhoff) at
Heidelberg; he, amiable and intelligent,
studying the concrete sciences apparently—especially
geology: and about to go to Vienna for six
months for this purpose, leaving his wife at
Heidelberg!’ (George Eliot’s Life, vol. iii. p. 101.)
This plan, however, was not immediately
carried out, and Woldemar spent a term in
Heidelberg with his wife. Their life at that time
is described in the following way by the friend I
have mentioned, who, through Sonia’s
intervention, had obtained permission from her parents
to study with her:
‘Some days after my arrival in Heidelberg, in
October 1869, Sonia returned from England with
her husband. She seemed quite happy, and very
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