Search:
2 Items
Page: 1
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 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 |
Addressee
| Sedgwick, Adam | (2) |
