To G. M. Humphry 14 March 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Mar 14— 1873
Dear Professor Humphry
I am sorry to say that the state of my health prevents me from attending the meeting to which you refer. I have heard from Prof. Hughes on the same general subject, & have told him how glad & proud I shall be to aid in any way in doing honour to the venerated memory of Sedgwick—1
Pray believe me | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Adam Sedgwick died in January 1873; he had taught CD geology when CD was a student at Cambridge University (Correspondence vol. 1). See Correspondence vol. 21, letter to T. M. Hughes, 13 March [1873], and this volume, Supplement, letter from G. M. Humphry, [before 14] March 1873. The letter from Thomas McKenny Hughes has not been found. A meeting was planned to take place in Cambridge on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Sedgwick. It was hoped that the memorial would take the form of a geological museum to house Sedgwick’s collections (Lancet, 22 March 1873, p. 426); the Sedgwick Memorial Museum opened in 1904. CD subscribed fifteen guineas and was on the London Committee (Reporter, 27 March 1873, p. 186).
Summary
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8810F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Murray Humphry
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016)
- Physical description
- 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8810F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8810F.xml
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