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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 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 |
From Adam Sedgwick 30 May 1870
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7209 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Sedgwick, Adam …
- … To Adam Sedgwick 24 August [1859] …
- … 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, …
From Adam Sedgwick 11 October 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on election of his son [George] as a Fellow of Trinity College.
Describes his ill health.
Invites CD to visit Cambridge.
[Letter dated November in error.]
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6416 |
From Adam Sedgwick 4 September 1831
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-116 |
From Adam Sedgwick 18 September 1831
Summary
Is glad of CD’s appointment and hopes it will be a source of happiness and honour.
Answers a query about books.
Suggests CD go to Geological Society, present himself, as AS’s friend, to William Lonsdale and study the Society’s collection.
Tells CD of his work in Wales; includes a diagram and explanations.
Ramsay’s death a grievous loss.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-129 |
From Adam Sedgwick 24 November 1859
Summary
Thanks CD for the Origin; AS has read the book "with more pain than pleasure". CD has deserted "the true method of induction" and many of his wide conclusions are "based upon assumptions which can neither be proved nor disproved". His "grand principle – natural selection" is "but a secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts".
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: B17–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2548 |
To Charles Lyell 29 [November 1859]
Summary
Encloses letter from Adam Sedgwick [2548].
Mentions conversion of A. C. Ramsay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 [Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2560 |
To Alfred Newton [22 May 1870]
Summary
Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.
Arranges to meet AN.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | [22 May 1870] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7199 |
To G. M. Humphry 14 March 1873
Summary
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Murray Humphry |
Date: | 14 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810F |
To T. M. Hughes 13 March [1873]
Summary
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 13 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810 |
From G. M. Humphry [before 14] March 1873
Summary
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Author: | George Murray Humphry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14] Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | CUL Cambridge University Registry guard books: Sedgwick Memorial Museum 1873–1924 CUR 110: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809F |
To Charles Lyell [24 March – 3 April 1860]
Summary
Discusses letter of recommendation for Edward Blyth.
Sedgwick’s review of the Origin in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860].
Mentions breaks between geological formations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [24 Mar – 3 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.204) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2734 |
To T. M. Hughes 24 May 1875
Summary
Reports some details of the geological tour he took with Sedgwick in North Wales in 1831. Recalls how neither he nor Sedgwick saw the obvious signs of past glaciation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 24 May 1875 |
Classmark: | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (Archive DDF Box 720) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9993 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Adam Sedgwick, 11 [October 1868] ; Correspondence vol. …
- … on the geological tour he took with Adam Sedgwick in 1831 are in DAR 5; he also gave a …
- … vol. 1, letter from Adam Sedgwick, 4 September 1831 . CD refers to the letter from Adam …
- … Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 (see Correspondence vol. 7), which was included almost in its entirety in the biography of Sedgwick commenced by Hughes ( John Willis Clark and Hughes 1890, 2: 356–9). In addition to this letter, CD had in fact kept four letters from Sedgwick (see Correspondence vol. 1, letters from Adam Sedgwick , …
- … Sedgwick was looking for fossils in order to establish a continuous stratigraphical sequence downwards into the lower unknown strata of North Wales; the trip was Sedgwick’s first geological excursion to investigate the older fossiliferous rocks in Britain, which became known (from 1835) as ‘Cambrian’ ( Secord 1986 , p. 60). CD found fossil madrepores (reef-building stony corals) at Cwm Idwal on his way home from his trip with Sedgwick (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Adam Sedgwick, …
To J. S. Henslow 8 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2791 |
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