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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
13 Oct 1868
Source of text:
Mrs Romney Sedgwick (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AS for congratulations on George Darwin’s Trinity fellowship.

Reminiscence of his geological tour of North Wales with AS and the encouraging messages received during the Beagle voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[16 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.459 (C: RS:HS 24.269)
Summary:

Praises AS for commencing his fifty-second course of lectures at age 84. Laments his own frailty. Recommends an array of meteorological books . Lists 'useful' meteorological instruments. Mentions family matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
1 June [1870]
Source of text:
Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958)
Summary:

Thanks AS for his kindness towards himself and his family. Looks back with great satisfaction to his last visit ("as it will probably prove") to Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project