From Adam Sedgwick 4 September 1831
Summary
Reports on his geological work in N. Wales since he and CD parted. Answers CD’s queries.
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 |
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 30 May 1870
Summary
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7209 |
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