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Ft'om Professor Sedgiuick. 



Norwich, May 2nd, 1853. 

 My dear Sir, — 



Your kind remembrance has been forwarded to me at Norwich, where I 

 am now residing, and I heartily thank you for it. I cannot forget the happy and 

 laborious days I spent in Cumberland, and the pleasure and instruction I had from 

 your society. Alas ! thirty-one years have passed away since I first saw you at 

 Keswick. Every spring I am tormented by a long lingering rheumatic affection, 

 they call suppressed gout. It takes away my sleep, and destroys my spirits. I 

 have it now. Business calls me away for one day to Cambridge, and I stumbled, 

 while packing my bag, on your note, and I resolved to answer it forthwith. Some 

 one told me a few days since, that poor Charles Wright had come to an untimely 

 end. Is it true ? Pray send me some Keswick news. And if it would not trouble 

 you too much, I will send you a few questions about the mineral veins, now worked 

 or formerly worked near you. The/y is come for me ; and the trains wait for no 

 man. So no more at present. I hope to see you in the summer. 

 Ever truly and gratefully yours, 



ADAM SEDGWICK. 



From Professor Sedgwick. 



Norwich, May 12th, 1853. 

 My dear Sir, — 



Your long and kind letter reached me yesterday morning, and I was 



shocked at your allusion to poor Bird's suffering and death. From your words I 



suppose he has met with some horrible death ; but I am anxious to hear more on 



the subject, as no one had mentioned it to me before. He was an old pupil of 



mine, and the' eccentric in his habits, he was at the bottom a kind-hearted man, 



and he has I beheve a great regard for me. Pray is his widow living ? In regard 



to your printed paper, I can offer no opinion on the first 'part of it, as I do not 



know the arrangement of the drifted matter to whicli you allude. I am a believer 



in great currents, such as you imagine, and they liave, I doubt not, been caused by 



sudden changes of level between sea and land. The second part of your paper is 



ingenious and good. I hope to see Keswick again this summer, and to have the 



pleasure of shaking you by the hand. Eemember me to Wright, if you see him. 



He is worth a hundred dead men. With best wishes for the restoration of your 



strength by the influence of summer temperature. 



Believe me, very truly yours, 



A. SEDGWICK. 



P.S. — I am devoured by rheiunatic gout, and feel the infirmities brought by 

 sixty-eight winters that have j)assed over me. 



