To Adam Sedgwick 11 November [1859]1
Down Bromley Kent [Ilkley.]
Nov. 11th.—
My dear Professor Sedgwick
I have told Murray to send you a copy of my book on the Origin of Species, which is as yet only an abstract. As the conclusion at which I have arrived after an amount of work, which is not apparent in this condensed sketch, is so diametrically opposed to that which you have often advocated with much force, you might think that I send my volume to you out of a spirit of bravado & with a want of respect, but I assure you that I am actuated by quite opposite feelings.2
Pray believe me | My honoured friend | Your sincerely obliged | Charles Darwin
The Revd.— | Prof. Sedgwick
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Has told Murray to send AS a copy of Origin. CD’s conclusion is diametrically opposed to that which AS has often advocated, but he assures AS he does not send his book out of a spirit of bravado.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2525
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Adam Sedgwick
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 235)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2525,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2525.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
