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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 292
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 285
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.450
Summary:
JH's Essays [Essays Q.E.R.] has reached Lowestoft, but AS has been too ill to read them. Sends regards to family.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 286
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 293
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 May 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 287
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 November 1858
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
27 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIG.32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 288
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 289
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B17–18
Summary:
Thanks CD for the Origin; AS has read the book "with more pain than pleasure". CD has deserted "the true method of induction" and many of his wide conclusions are "based upon assumptions which can neither be proved nor disproved". His "grand principle – natural selection" is "but a secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 February 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 290
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
7 February 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIO.25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
24 April 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIO.41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
30 April 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIO.42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 August 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 291
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
14 March 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIO.61
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Sedgwick, Adam
- Herschel, John44
- Henslow, J. S.29
- Darwin, C. R.13
- Kemp, William3
- Geological Society of London2
- Somerville, William2
- Babbage, Charles1
- Bostock, John1
- Broderip, W. J.1
- Buckland, William1
- Clift, William1
- Compton, S. J. A.1
- Hamilton, W. J.1
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Murchison, R. I.1
- Owen, Richard1
- Phillips, John1
- Roget, P. M.1
- Somerville, Mary1
- Spring Rice, Thomas1
- Stanley, Edward1
- Stokes, Charles1
- Taylor, John1
- Whewell, William1