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DCP-LETT-2482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
24 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health.

Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but is unfit for so great an exertion. Has been told he has "suppressed gout".

Pleased that AS remembers their 1831 geological trip, which made CD appreciate the noble science of geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 235)
Summary:

Has told Murray to send AS a copy of Origin. CD’s conclusion is diametrically opposed to that which AS has often advocated, but he assures AS he does not send his book out of a spirit of bravado.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
26 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 3020: 1–3)
Summary:

CD expected AS’s "strong disapprobation" of his book [Origin] but is grieved "to have shocked a man whom I sincerely honour". Has worked "like a slave" on the subject for over 20 years and is not conscious that bad motives have influenced the conclusions at which he has arrived. CD does not think the book will be mischievous and "if I be wrong I shall soon be annihilated". CD may have written too confidently from feeling confident that no "false theory would explain so many classes of facts".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2540

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[7 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.449 (C: RS:HS 23.170)
Summary:

Is glad that J. C. Maxwell has received the Aberdeen Professorship. Has forwarded 'your last' to the Principal. Is feeling better, but still needs crutches.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2544

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.453 (C: RS:HS 24.123)
Summary:

JH's daughter Maria is getting married. JH has been ill. The Iliad translation is almost finished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2546

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[10 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.455 (C: RS:HS 24.128)
Summary:

Asks that AS show JH's son Alexander around Norwich when he arrives there. Reflects on changes in geology. Has finished hexameter Iliad translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6418

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

Herschel2550

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

DCP-LETT-7213F

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
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