The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick #224615

A death in the family circle at Dent determined Sedgwick's first invitation to his niece Isabella. In February, 1840, his brother John had the misfortune to lose his second daughter, Emma. Sedgwick was deeply afflicted by the fatal termination of a long illness which does not seem to have been thought dangerous. I greatly pity the father and. Mother, he wrote 1.