Letter signed, to Professor George Murray Humphry, on the memorial to Adam Sedgwick
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Down, Beckenham, Kent: 14 March 1873. Written from Down on 14 March 1873 and signed in full, this is Darwin’s answer to the printed circular that called the friends of Adam Sedgwick to a meeting in the Cambridge Senate House to settle what form his memorial should take. Darwin was too unwell to travel and said so; but he turned the refusal into a commitment, undertaking to aid in any way the honouring of what he called the venerated memory of
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