Item 26 - Letter from Adam Sedgwick

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Add. MS a/213/26

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Letter from Adam Sedgwick

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  • 23 Oct. 1840 (Creation)

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3 pp.

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'Nothing, but a most painful and important duty, should have kept me so long in the south of England as I am likely to remain before I can return to Cambridge'. He will not be back before the Saturday preceeding his first lecture. On arriving at St. Bas AS found his oldest friend dangerously ill: 'He gradually got worse and worse and died at two o'clock on Tuesday morning'.

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