From W. W. Reade 6 April [1874]1
10 Craven Street | Strand
April 6.
My dear Sir
I just write you a line to say I have come back from the Gold Coast and to express a hope that you have been in tolerable health during the winter.2
I am sorry to say that I have brought home no new ethnological facts— Do not trouble to answer this; I have some idea of becoming a member of the Royal Institution and if introduced by a member of the Committee can get in without delay. As I believe your brother is one, (or if not you have many friends on it) I may ask for your kind offices in the matter.3 But I shall not make up my mind till I have been there again to make inquiries & will in any case write to you again in the course of the week.
I have had 2 attacks of dysentery & have still chronic Diarrhœa in a mild way—but am in very fair health notwithstanding
I remain | Yours very truly | Winwood Reade
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9392
- From
- William Winwood Reade
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Craven St, 10
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 71
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9392,” accessed on 7 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9392.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
