Looking forward to seeing him especially if he brings a "plumper for Palmerston" [for election as burgess of Cambridge University]. Remembers [Thomas] Musgrave to Procter. Written from "Lord Palmerston's Committee Room."

Provenance: 1981 1963ms

Asking Clift to help Rev. Charles Joseph in seeing the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. Notes bought the elk horns of "Sowerby"

Provenance: removed from B: AL1.3

Encloses a note [missing] for Mr. Woodward who would give the correspondent "the information you want"; mentions Sowerby and Museum cabinets; Mr. Latter is coming to Cambridge this week; asks about mineral specimens; "Mr. Tennant succeeded Mawe" in the Strand mineral shop; correspondent has a son who would be a sizar; AS gives information on becoming a sizar and scholar

Provenance: 1983 780ms

Asks correspondent to notify Mr. Airy that a friend of AS's named West(?) is coming north to assist Airy on his walk in the Highlands and Cape Wrath

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Asks that 3 copies of his anniversary addresses to the Geological Society in 1830 and 1831 be bound with other addresses

Provenance: 1979 1661ms

Lloyd sent parcel with copies of "Dublin problems" (mathematical questions); Sedgwick has been ill; bulk of letter explains history of the use of the "Royal Privilege" by the Crown in using the mandamus petition to grant divinity degrees; mentions that [Samuel?] Lee might have gotten one to qualify for the "Arabic" professorship; advice on Irish Geological Museum

Provenance: 1971 1189ms

Taking waters, "driving off rheumatic gout and stimulating a sluggish liver"; Going to Norwich to his Residence (prebendary); will miss meeting in Glasgow; mentions Geological Museum, then being built

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Son of the late Mr. Bowman has sent a box of Bala fossils to correspondent, who has seen the ones AS and Murchison collected in 1834; might contain new species Mr Bowman collected; AS wants to compare with Coniston Water Head; AS now believes Bala on lower parallel than Coniston; Snowdons lie "many thousand feet lower still, but the old species" still show; earlier sent correspondent box of upper greywacke fossils

Provenance: 1967 2641ms

Asks [William] Lonsdale to forward the note to Mr. [Thomas] Sopwith who is likely in Newcastle [Thomas' hometown] asking Sopwith to come to Cambridge this week and then they can go to meeting of Geological Society together; AS has audit and then inspection of his new museum which moved into new quarters last year; he intends to ask [James de Carle?] Sowerby to help with exhibit

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Museum advancing; suffering from "suppressed gout" that AS wishes would "show its face at the surface instead of lurking among my vitals, & poisoning the fresh air of life"; wants correspondent to make a "model" for his fall lectures, similar to the one of the Forest of Dean he saw at De la Beche's, which AS could cover and use as a table; mentions how the real Forest would "cure" him

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Detailed instructions on what is needed to set up a model for his lectures, mounted like the one at the Economical Club, where De la Beche's model is; model is to have a "stout cover capable of being locked down for I should not wish it to be exposed to public view without permission"; is on a "severe diet" to "mitigate my malady"

Provenance: 974 1450ms

No hurry on model since will need it only when AS gets back to Cambridge at Christmas; can't give correspondent directions about the "Old Red" [sandstone] which in "that country" (Forest of Dean?) with the middle part containing limestone and the lower part slate; has severe cold, worse since influenza in Jan. 1837

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Correspondent sent a parcel to Norwich; OK for correspondent to use the model until AS needs it in Jan.; AS's cold is better but still confined to house; was not at Norwich for the festival

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Has arranged credit or 56 pounds for the correspondent with Jonathan(?) Lambert & Co.; AS saw a blast that brought down some chalk cliffs at Dover and saw John Herschel and Professor Airy there; model is on its legs and is all he could wish

Provenance: (1974 1450ms)

Thanks correspondent for two pamphlets, one on the mustard tree and one on the history of Scriptures; is feeling gouty; Wiesbaden cure did no good even after two months

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Asks [Hugh?} Miller about a book on behalf of "Mrs. Williams" maybe called the Cambrian Lyre that is supposedly translated from the Celtic. Anecdote about going to visit Wales, asking a Welsh lad where "Mr. Williams" is, the lad not understanding until AS said "Dr. Williams." Correspondent friends with the Williamses who apparently live in Llandovery.

Provenance: 1976 1490.fms

Explains activities that have prevented him from writing sooner, including a recent election; AS on winning side. Pleased to respond to grandson of Mr. Foster of Hebblethwaite Hall in Sedbergh. Reminesces about Mr. Foster, of "uncommon stamp." Last saw him in Newcastle, visiting a cut glass factory. When last in Sedbergh, all the people AS knew seemed to be gone

Provenance: 1971 1667ms

Meant to forward "Lord Monteagle's hieroglyphics" to Peacock and would like to go with the letter himself but he has a cold; unity of Trinity College a problem; AS did his "utmost to keep good humour" around him during the recent election of Prince Albert to the Chancellorship of Cambridge; Monteagle in his letter says that the Prince accepts the office; AS had "two or three bleedings" to clear his "stuffed and loaded" head

Provenance: 1975 92ms

AS made some unspecified "stupid blunder"; requests correspondent to return with AS from London, where he is undertaking a work of "inspection"; AS can give correspondent two or three clear days; AS hadn't heard that Henry Thomas De la Beche was to be knighted, but "I hope now that he mounts his spurs he will not drop his hammer"

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Thanks correspondent [Rev. C. B. Smyth] for sending his book The Sicilian Vespers; will become a subscriber; AS intends to work on book on Christian Metaphysics

Provenance: 1972 434ms

Knows the College spit ceases to turn without Professor Sedgwick, but the Duchess of Argyll has given him an invitation, and it is Sedgwick's policy that whenever "duty & inclination have a fight, he thinks it best & most manly that inclination should win"; it is a "severe code of morals for a poor old Monk" but he will ask for the Duchess' "grace and absolution" tomorrow

Provenance: B Se25L

Ill, but wants to attend audit of Norwich Chapter and go to Trinity College for its audit. Is worried about it. Is delivering lecture to the Geological Society. Wishes correspondent luck with his Literary Gazette [likely correspondent is William Jerdan, editor of the Literary Gazette]

Provenance: 1955 1030ms

Apologizes for not writing sooner, lost the letter on his desk, will be back in Cambridge in July; wants to see antiquarian friends to "attend Hall" with them where Sedgwick is "Master & Lord of the Spit"; jokes that antiquarian friends forget to eat; admires archaeologist [Albert] Way; good news about the "Norwich window"

Provenance: 1971 1189ms

Declines invitation to a Bachelor Ball due to age and ill health. Wishes he "could take the load of the last 40 years off my sholders." Can't join the "sect of jumpers"; we all must join in the "dance of Death."

Provenance: 1979 1519ms

Letter written on a printed circular with four letters by Sedgwick from Cambridge Papers Feb. 23, 1856, concerning the purchase of a paleontology collection of Rev. T. Image for 250 pounds plus 100 pounds for exhibiting it. "Gout drives me out of bed & almost to mania"; Circular intended for MA's; is seeking more subscriptions; has fallen short; correspondent is "brother geologist"; the Residents at Cambridge have been generous

Provenance: 1984 196ms

Accepts an invitation to dinner [Lady Affleck (d. 1865) was wife of William Whewell, who married her in 1858]

Provenance: 1980 1301ms

While normally doesn't do so, agrees in this case to subscribe to Cayley's work "Metrical Version of the Psalms"; [came out as The Psalms in Metre, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860]

Provenance: 1971 1667ms

Son and wife and grandson Adam arrived unexpectedly by train after a "wild, cold, uncertain drive" to Langcliff; asks if he could visit Mr. Atkinson; will be there for "xtmas"; other personal circumstances noted

Provenance: 1971 1667ms

Talks of weather, finally getting outside and "cast my skin, as some reptiles do" and got some sun; believes books of "Coleazo"(?) have problematic thinking; thanks Atkinson for a photograph; plans a party

Provenance: 1971 1819ms

Thanks for searching for Cowgill's paper; mentions the bad state of "the late Mr. Burder's (?) papers"

Provenance: 1972 476ms

Thanks for letter, reminisces about correspondent's father and mother when AS first went to Norwich; AS ordained with her father; late friend from Cambridge student days [Joseph] Romilly mentioned; talks of old age; has family guests; nephew had attack of "monomania" early 1863

Provenance: 1980 1301ms

Correspondent should have received AS's "Memorial for the Trustees for Cowgill Chapel"; history of the Chapel; urges correspondent to read especially particular parts of the "Memorial"

Provenance: (1974 1450ms)

Correspondent bought a photograph of AS; latest illness; leaves for Cambridge end of Sept.

Provenance: 1980 1301ms

To meet correspondent in Bath at the York House Hotel, take baths, go to Salisbury, then go to Dent [AS went to Bath with his great nephew Adam Sedgwick]

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Thanks for two pamphlets of the Report of the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club and a copy of correspondent's essay on the "Charnwood Gravels"; field work has long ended and reading days may be over; bothered by bronchitis but hopes to get through last lectures

Provenance: 1955 1031ms

AS withdrawals his signature from a paper given him by Charlesworth because it was not in regular printer's form and AS does not know the person or his work

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Tries to reach correspondent to say impossible to meet correspondent in London this week - had thought meeting of Geological Society was this week but is next week Wed.; would be convenient to rendezvous in Cambridge and go to London together; apologizes for mistake and partly blames sickness

Provenance: 1974 1450ms

Asks correspondent to have wine with him.

Provenance: removed from call number B:AL1.2