Item 38 - Letter from Adam Sedgwick

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Letter from Adam Sedgwick

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  • [May 1854] (Creation)

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Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
(1794-1866)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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AS has just received WW's pamphlet ['Notes on the Oxford University Bill in Reference to the Colleges at Cambridge', 1854]. Colonel Grey told AS at Buckingham Palace that the Prince [Prince Albert] 'had been astounded at the news of wholesale rejection, by the Senate, of the graces proposed by the study syndicate'. AS thinks this very unfortunate: 'If Cambridge refuse to move by her own internal organs, what are the powers external to us likely to say and do?' AS has just finished WW's pamphlet and agrees with most of it.

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