From W. W. Reade 14 March 1872
Summary
Plans for visit to CD.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8242 |
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- … Bibliography Reade, William Winwood. 1872. The martyrdom of man. London: Trübner & Co. …
From W. W. Reade 14 October [1872]
Summary
Huxley will be asked to review Expression in Pall Mall Gazette.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8558 |
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- … Bibliography Expression : The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles …
From W. W. Reade 31 August [1873]
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Going to the Ashanti war as Times correspondent.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9036 |
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- … Bibliography DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney …
From W. W. Reade 28 June [1869]
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Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A32–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6260 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 20 February 1872
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Saw editor of the Pall Mall Gazette about review of Origin and Genesis of species.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8221 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 1 February 1871
Summary
Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7473 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 25 March [1873]
Summary
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8822 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871
Summary
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Summary
Meeting with CD postponed.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
From W. W. Reade 31 January 1871
Summary
Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7468 |
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- … Bibliography Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles …
From W. W. Reade 6 April [1874]
Summary
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9392 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 12 September 1871
Summary
Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.
Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7936 |
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- … Bibliography Descent 2d ed. : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By …
From W. W. Reade 10 January 1871
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Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.
Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7435 |
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- … Bibliography Comte, Charles. 1837. Traité de législation ou exposition des lois générales, …
From W. W. Reade 3 September 1870
Summary
Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.
Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7315 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 15 September 1871
Summary
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7947 |
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- … Bibliography Origin 5th ed. : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or …
From W. W. Reade 18 December [1874]
Summary
Bishop J. W. Colenso supports his old contention that the Kaffirs (including Zulus of South Africa) are Negroes.
[Horace Waller’s] The last journals of David Livingstone [in central Africa (1874)] cites CD’s plant research and has many facts "for Darwin".
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9764 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From W. W. Reade 3 May 1872
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Glad Mrs Darwin likes his preface, but fears she will not like his tone on religion.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8310 |
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- … Bibliography Ashton, Rosemary. 1991. G. H. Lewes: a life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. …
From W. W. Reade 5 November 1872
Summary
Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8600 |
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- … Bibliography Atkins, Hedley J. B. 1974. Down, the home of the Darwins: the story of a …
From W. W. Reade 25 September 1871
Summary
Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].
Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A49; DAR 176: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7968 |
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- … Bibliography Baker, Samuel White. 1867. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword …
From W. W. Reade 14 May 1873
Summary
Has completed his book [The African sketch-book (1873)].
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912 |
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- … Bibliography Balzac, Honoré de. 1831. La peau de chagrin, roman philosophique. 2 vols. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
| Reade, W. W. | (2) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
