Item 26 - Letter from Adam Sedgwick

3 pp.

'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'.