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Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall

1857ref. 408581857. Sedgwick Adam 1785-1873. Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall. Dent Yorkshire Oct. 7 1857; Trinity College Cambridge Oct. 31 1857. 8pp. total. 186 x 113 mm. Light soiling along folds but very good. Letters with excellent scientific content from one of the founders of modern geology. Sedgwick was responsible for defining the Devonian and Cambrian ages in the geological time scale and his immensely popular lecture courses on geology delivered annually at Cambridge between 1819 and 1870 had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of English geologists. One of his students was Charles Darwin who began attending Sedgwick's lectures in January 1831 and accompanied Sedgwick on a geological field tour of Wales the following summer. The two men remained friends until Sedgwick's death even though Sedgwick was never able to accept Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. IIn his Oct. 7 letter to Marshall Sedgwick discusses the geological researches he was then undertaking in England's Lake District: "I mean D.V. to work my way to Ulverston; & on Saturday or possibly Monday to transfer my head quarters to Broughton. I want to connect our work in all quarries on the east side of the road with the great open quarries in the Ireleth country; which we failed to do. The beds in the great open quarries strike very differently from those you & I saw; yet the strike of the cleavage is unchanged in direction & from end to end almost perpendicular--I think it highly probable that the bed between the Ireleth slate & the Ulverston estuary are nearly all from the flag or flag & grit--And I suspect that some hard gritty ridges I remember to have seen in a part of Cartmell Fell are but a repetition by enormous fault of the Comiston grits. . . ." Sedgwick also notes his intention to "hear Dr. Livingstone's evening lecture"; this is a reference to David Livingstone 1813-73 famous for his exploration of Africa. Sedgwick later provided a preface to Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures 1858. In his Oct. 31 letter Sedgwick touches on his precarious health--"On Monday I ought to have begun my course of lectures but on that day I had a severe relapse of vertigo & was obliged to put off my lectures until Friday yesterday"--and continues his discussion of his work: "All the rocks from the Ireleth country to the Comiston Ulverston sands are Comiston flag--But in our final traverse we found the hard Comiston grits in the hills S. W. of Penny Bridge--just where they ought to be--I think there is an enormous break down the valley meeting the complicated faults which come down from the hill a little North of Seathwaite at an angle.--In short the country from Ireleth Moor inclusive to the Sand of Ulverston has had a shove southwards of about five miles!" The recipient of these letters James Marshall was an amateur geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society. A friend of both Sedgwick and John Herschel Marshall was "a keen advocate of scientific education" Briggs Victorian Cities 1993 p. 161. Olroyd Earth Water Ice and Fire 2002 p. 20. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. . unknown books

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BRIGHT, Adam (d 1881), and Michael Bright (d 1863)ABAA

The original letters written from the Civil War battlefields and camps of Tennessee and Virginia to their uncle and published in 1962 as "Respects to All": Letters of Two Pennsylvania Boys in the War of the Rebellion

ref. 53216Edited by Aida Craig Truxall for the U. of Pittsburgh Press comprising 44 autograph letters signed by Adam Bright 27 July 1861 - 14 April 1864 and 34 autograph letters signed by Michael Bright 22 October 1861 - 26 July 1863 most of each group to their uncle Emanuel Stotler at home in Alleghany County Pennsylvania; accompanied by the publisher's file of working manuscripts and other material. 8vo. 296 total pages approximately 30000 words; some of the letters with a patriotic letterhead most are addressed to their uncle some to his wife a few to "family" and several are from Adam to Michael most accompanied by mailing envelopes. The following are also included:_1 Truxall's original ribbon typescript for her transcriptions of the letters 4to 148 pages rectos only some pages with editorial markings._2 Truxall's original ribbon typescript of her manuscript for the book including her preface notes to the text and other material as submitted for publication with many corrections additions and deletions by her editor at the University of Pittsburgh Press 4to 152 pages rectos only._3 Truxall's copy of the published book 8vo 96 pp. illustrated cloth and boards dust jacket very good with the signature "Truxall" at the head of the front flap of the dust jacket._4 File of Truxall's notes toward the project genealogical material historical material concerning various Pennsylvania military units serving in the Civil War 1950s-era Civil War battlefield leaflets three topographical maps of the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area and a few related newspaper clippings._5 Carte-de-visite photograph of Corporal Adam Bright 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches mounted on a slightly larger card in uniform sitting in a studio probably from 1864 with the backmark: "R.W. Addis / Photographer / 308 Penna Avenie / Washington D.C." All of the letters folded. Some foxing and a little staining to a few of the letters one repaired with tape the envelopes worn and variously soiled and stained; some postage stamps still affixed. Adam Bright enlisted in the 9th Pennsylvania Infantry in early 1861 and served with his unit in the various campaigns of the Army of the Potomac until the unit was mustered out of service in April 1864; he returned to civilian life in western Pennsylvania. His brother Michael enlisted in the 77th Pennsylvania regiment later in 1861 and served with that unit in the various campaigns of the Army of the Cumberland until killed in action on the first day at Chickamauga in September 1863._"The accounts of camp living the primitive practices of the army the methods of handling the distribution of rations the rumors of the immediate end of the war always erroneous and probably the result of wishful thinking on the part of the soldiers and the enlisted men's evaluations of the generals are all very interesting. But the most fascinating picture that emerges is that of two ordinary young men performing a duty that patriotism required of them in spite of the perils of battlefield and camp life while fighting the silent and lonely battle of homesickness which has always been the bane of soldiers" from Harry R. Beck 's review in The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine vol. 46 no. 1 Jan. 1863. unknown books

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