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To Humphrey Sandwith   26 April 1875

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26 Apr 75

Comments on death of Winwood Reade. ‘… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man’.1

Footnotes

Sandwith had informed CD of William Winwood Reade’s last illness and death (see letter from Humphrey Sandwith, 25 April 1875).

Summary

Comments on death of W. W. Reade. "… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9951
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Humphry Sandwith
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 May 1961)
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9951,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9951.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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