From Adam Sedgwick   18 November 1857

My dear Henslow

Who is P. P. Carpenter? I have just had his letter & Prospectus—I wish I could buy a good set, tho’ I do not see their pressing geological use, & I am very, very poor at present. Barrett (a capital helper & a man of infinite good & great acuteness as a naturalist, & rising every day in knowledge) is paid by me, not by the University— I will speak to Barrett however[.] Of course he will wish us to buy:-- What I wish you above all to do, is to send me word how M. ^rs Henslow is going on[.] Your unbalance made me sorrowful and now that I am in the practice of starvation & solitude my spirit sometimes are down in my heels—

No wonder then that my poor head should reel as it has done

Thank God it is now grown steady— On Monday I really lectured with pleasure— How I shall get on to day I do not well know, but the Sun is shining— Bravo! he has a jolly round face. I wish he w. ^d not so often hide it Love to all your Lady friends at home— beginning with M. ^rs H & ending with my dear God Daughter—

Ever affec ^y y. ^rs | A Sedgwick