Sedgwick, Adam F.R.S. (1785-1873), geologist

Miscellaneous material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1821-1873

50 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, December 1919 (acc.67287), July 1931 (acc.57468), December 1931 (acc.75873), April 1932 (acc.65134), July 1932 (acc.65271) and November 1933 (acc.67469 and 67472); R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.74959), March 1931 (acc.68133), May 1931 (acc.68158) and August 1931 (acc.68229 and 68232); Desgranges, Paris, June 1930 (acc.67390); Hodgson's, London, June 1931 (acc.80890); Glendining, London, March 1932 (acc.67624), August 1932 (acc.67694), September 1932 (acc.67720), September 1933 (acc.67769), August 1934 (acc.67865), January 1935 (acc.67950 and 67974) and May 1935 (acc.68609); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. No.16 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800); original provenence not recorded but probably acquired around 1906. Provenance details of nos.6, 9, 17, 25, 37 and 50 not recorded (acc.67430); no accession details noted for nos.14, 38, 40, 41.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.