To Adam Sedgwick 1 June [1870]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
June 1
My dear Professor Sedgwick
I must write a line to thank you very much for the present of your last writing.2
What I said in my last note was exactly true: I felt your manner towards myself & family extraordinarily kind, & I have not often in my life been more gratified.—3 Walking round the museum, after conversing with you, tired me a good deal, for I am knocked up with incredible ease; but I was quite right again next morning.4 I shall always look back with great satisfaction to my last visit (as it will probably prove) to Cambridge.— I hope that you will feel strong, so as to enjoy to a certain extent your visit to your old home.—5
With the most sincere respect, believe me | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
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.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7213F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Adam Sedgwick
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7213F,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7213F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
