From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1854?]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:
'Delighted' to hear that JH is in 'such good spirits.' Has been giving regular class lectures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.444
Summary:
William Conybeare has asked AS to assist in the certification of George Wilson. Mentions William Whewell's book [Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay], but has been too ill to study it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.446
Summary:
Has JH received the second or third of AS's Cambridge Paleozoic? Asks about William Whewell's pamphlets regarding the University. Describes trip to Scotland.
Contributor:
John Herschel 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
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:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.451
Summary:
Writes to point out an error in a pamphlet he had written. Discusses plans for upcoming trip to the north.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.452
Summary:
Thanks JH for translation of Iliad. AS's health has been poor. Invites the Herschels to Norwich.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.454
Summary:
Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.456
Summary:
Eyesight is failing. Discusses William Whewell's death and pays him tribute. Says Professor [W. H.] Thompson will replace Whewell.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 June 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.457
Summary:
Has printed a Memorial about Norwich. Discusses this pamphlet. Has been ill. Discusses solitude and says almost none of his friends are still living.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 129
Summary:
Congratulates CD on election of his son [George] as a Fellow of Trinity College.
Describes his ill health.
Invites CD to visit Cambridge.
[Letter dated November in error.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
21 Apr 1869
Source of text:
MSS 4 / 53, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.458
Summary:
Wilberforce Clarke, the nephew of an old friend, has been appointed to a meteorological observatory. He needs a list of useful books and instruments for his job from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 128
Summary:
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project