To W. W. Reade 21 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.
Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,
and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Asks about African ideas of beauty.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6754 |
From W. W. Reade 23 May 1868
Summary
Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.
Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6202 |
To H. W. Bates 18 March [1868]
Summary
Requests information on the standard of beauty of savages and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6022 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … W. Reade, 19 May 1868) , who later suppplied CD with information on female choice of …
- … W. Reade, 17 January 1869 , and Descent 2: 374). Bates had probably visited CD on 15 March 1868 ( …
- … 1868 . Bates was assistant secretary of the Royal Geographical Society of London and had explored the Amazon between 1848 and 1859 ( ODNB ). CD evidently refers to sexual selection by women. Bates discussed the subject with William Winwood Reade (see letter from W. …
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 |
From W. W. Reade 13 February 1872
Summary
Sending sheets of his forthcoming work on Africa [Martyrdom of man (1872)] with views that differ from CD’s on music and sexual selection.
The Pall Mall Gazette will review the new [6th] edition of the Origin, together with Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8210 |
From W. W. Reade 28 June [1869]
Summary
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 |
From W. W. Reade 20 September 1871
Summary
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7955 |
From W. W. Reade 9 November 1870
Summary
Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: 109–112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7363 |
Reade, W. W. (1838–75)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868–70, and again in 1873 as correspondent for The Times. Wrote novels as well as travel observations. Nephew of the novelist Charles Reade. For more information, go to: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/humannature/2011/05/20/spotlight-on-a-correspondent-william-winwood-reade/ Correspondence vol. 18, letter from W. …
From W. W. Reade 3 May 1872
Summary
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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From Edward Blyth 24 August 1868
Summary
Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A34–5, DAR 160: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6329 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868 has not been found. See letter from Edward Blyth, 3 August 1868 and n. 5. Abraham Dee Bartlett read a paper on the crested turkey at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Norwich on 22 August 1868 ( The Times , 22 August 1868, p. 4). CD was interested in whether the horns appeared earlier or later in mammal species in which only the males had horns (see letter to W. W. Reade, …
From W. W. Reade 4 June 1870
Summary
The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.
Believes the Jollops select for blackness.
Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.
Has found stone instruments.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7216 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868] ( Correspondence vol. 16). CD reported Reade’s views in Descent 2: 350. CD reported this observation in Descent 2: 346. The Wolof people (also spelled Ouolof) now live primarily in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania (Appiah and Gates eds. 2005, 5: 430). On the Wolof’s ‘process of selection’, see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from W. …
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