To Adam Sedgwick 26 November [1859]
Summary
CD expected AS’s "strong disapprobation" of his book [Origin] but is grieved "to have shocked a man whom I sincerely honour". Has worked "like a slave" on the subject for over 20 years and is not conscious that bad motives have influenced the conclusions at which he has arrived. CD does not think the book will be mischievous and "if I be wrong I shall soon be annihilated". CD may have written too confidently from feeling confident that no "false theory would explain so many classes of facts".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 26 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 3020: 1–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2555 |
To Adam Sedgwick 11 November [1859]
Summary
Has told Murray to send AS a copy of Origin. CD’s conclusion is diametrically opposed to that which AS has often advocated, but he assures AS he does not send his book out of a spirit of bravado.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 235) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2525 |
To Adam Sedgwick 1 June [1870]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 1 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213F |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Sedgwick, Adam …
- … To Adam Sedgwick 1 June [1870] …
- … Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 June [1870] Adam Sedgwick …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Adam Sedgwick, 30 May 1870 . …
- … Adam Sedgwick, 30 May 1870 and n. 3. CD’s letter to Sedgwick has not been found; however, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] . CD refers to the Woodwardian Museum (see letter to Alfred Newton, [22 May 1870] and n. 3). Sedgwick was planning to visit Dent, in Yorkshire (see letter from Adam …
To Adam Sedgwick 21 [December 1838]
Summary
CD informs AS of the position of the Council of the Geological Society on recommending J. B. Jukes for a geological survey of Newfoundland. Feels Jukes’s application would have best chance of success if Sedgwick, his Professor at Cambridge, wrote a letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 21 [Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 7652 IB: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-459 |
To Adam Sedgwick 11 October [1850]
Summary
Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].
Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 11 Oct [1850] |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369F |
To Adam Sedgwick 13 October 1868
Summary
Thanks AS for congratulations on George Darwin’s Trinity fellowship.
Reminiscence of his geological tour of North Wales with AS and the encouraging messages received during the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 13 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | Mrs Romney Sedgwick (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6418 |
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 |
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- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Aug [1859] Adam Sedgwick …
- … Sedgwick’s ill health (see nn. 3 and 4, below). The tone of the letter also indicates that it was written before Origin was published: Sedgwick was deeply distressed by CD’s transmutationist views as put forward in Origin (see letter from Adam Sedgwick, …
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