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Description: In this autograph letter signed, Sedgwick states in full to an unknown recipient:

 My dear Sir,

Many thanks for your note which I will this day forward to the Duke of Manchester [William Montagu]. I suppose Dr. Dickens’ address is Aberdeen–Very truly yours/A Sedgewick

P.S. Pray come again soon to Cambridge to report progress—-Give my kind remembrances to your father.

Written on two sides of  a 4¼” x 3 ½” sheet of paper sent from the Athenaeum Club. Item #A01870

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was a conservative British geologist and the Edwardian Professor of Geology (1818-1873). He was the first to apply the term Cambrian to refer to the geological period of time between 570-505 million years ago; along with Sir Roderick L. Murchinson, he named the Devonian period, now dated 408-360 million years ago. Charles Darwin was his pupil, and he maintained a long relationship with him; however, he did not accept Darwin’s thesis on the order of natural selection. Sedgwick was also against the inclusion of women–“nasty forward minxes”–into Cambridge.

Condition: In very good condition.