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 |
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- … Caroline Darwin, 9–28 March [1834] ). CD refers to his eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin . William was still 10 years old at the time this letter was written, reaching his 11th birthday on 27 December 1850; he entered Rugby School in 1852. On the question of William’s schooling, see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 10 October [1850] and n. 2. Sedgwick, in the first edition of Discourse on the studies of the University of Cambridge ( Sedgwick 1833 ), …
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