To W. D. Fox [6 October 1859]
Summary
First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2502 |
To Adam Sedgwick 24 August [1859]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2482 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin hoped Sedgwick would consider. Sedgwick suffered particularly poor health during the summer of 1858 and throughout 1859. See Clark and Hughes eds. 1890, 2: 339. Sedgwick was vice-president of the geology section of the British Association meeting at Aberdeen. The meeting, held from 14 to 21 September 1859, was of particular significance because Prince Albert was president of the association that year. CD did not attend. Henry Holland first offered this diagnosis of CD’s illness in 1849 (see Correspondence , vol. 4, letter …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
