Item 36 - Letter from Adam Sedgwick

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Add. MS a/213/36

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Letter from Adam Sedgwick

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  • 16 July 1852 (Creation)

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4 pp.

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AS hopes all has been done in due order: 'the Minor Fellows were admitted to Full Fellowship'. The temperature is boiling: 'On the wall of my room which looks into the Great Court it [the thermometer] stood at 98 [degrees] tho' shaded from the direct sunbeams'. AS has been studying the Oxford report and thinking of the Cambridge equivalent [AS was one of the Cambridge Commissioners on the Syndicate to revise the Statutes of the University].

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