From W. W. Reade 16 May 1872
Summary
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8335 |
From W. W. Reade 18 March [1872]
Summary
Will see CD tomorrow.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8247 |
From W. W. Reade 3 April 1872
Summary
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8272 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 3 April 1872 …
- … W. Reade, 12 March 1872 and n. 6. …
- … CD in London on 19 March 1872 (see letter from W. W. Reade, 18 March [1872] ). In Reade …
- … 1872 , p. 423, Reade maintained that racial differences were the result of differences in climate and food, and further, that distinctions among races were unimportant and external. Reade had also presented this view in his letter of 12 September 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). See also letter from W. …
From W. W. Reade 16 February 1872
Summary
Defends Descent against CD’s self-disparagement. The parts on the moral sense seem to him the finest in the book.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8215 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 16 February 1872 …
- … Reade refers to his book The martyrdom of man ( Reade 1872 ; see letter from W. W. …
- … September 1871 ). See letter from W. W. Reade, 13 February 1872 and n. 1. The author …
- … Norman MacColl . Reade visited CD on 19 March 1872 (see letter from W. W. Reade, 18 …
- … 1872 ). For more on objections to CD’s theory of the development of moral sense, see Correspondence vol. 19. Reade refers to St George Jackson Mivart’s anonymous review of Descent , published in the Quarterly Review ([Mivart] 1871c; see also Correspondence vol. 19, letter from W. W. …
From W. W. Reade 20 February 1872
Summary
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 20 February 1872 …
- … W. Reade, 18 February 1872 and n. 2. …
- … Reade 1872 ; see pp. 215–25 for the section on Jesus). John Morley had written a review of Descent in the Pall Mall Gazette , 20 and 21 March 1871 ([Morley] 1871a; see also Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Frederick Greenwood, 24 March [1871] ). No review of Origin 6th ed. or St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species ( Mivart 1871a ) appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette . Chapter 7 was the new chapter added to Origin 6th ed. See letter from W. …
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 |
From W. W. Reade 12 March 1872
Summary
Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8241 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 12 March 1872 …
- … groups. See also letter from W. W. Reade, 13 February 1872 . In the nineteenth century, …
- … 1872. The martyrdom of man. London: Trübner & Co. Reade, William Winwood. 1873. The African sketch-book. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. Stocking, George W. , …
- … 1872 . In Descent 2: 321, CD wrote, ‘With negroes the beard is scanty or absent, and they have no whiskers’; in Descent 2d ed. , he amended this to, ‘and they rarely have whiskers’. See also Correspondence vol. 19, letters from W. W. Reade, …
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 3 May 1872 …
- … of man and his apotheosis (see letter from W. W. Reade, 18 March [1872] and n. 3). …
- … W. Reade, 20 February 1872 and n. 3. Reade was hoping for a review of Origin 6th ed. …
- … W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Reade, …
- … 1872 ). There is an annotated copy in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 698). The page range suggested by Reade covers the last section of the third chapter (‘Materials of human history’), and two sections of the fourth chapter (‘Animal period of the earth’ and ‘Origin and early history of man’). A second edition was published in 1875. Reade refers to his African sketch-book ( Reade 1873 ). Reade’s publisher was Nicholas Trübner . St George Jackson Mivart was the author of Genesis of species ( Mivart 1871a ). See letter from W. …
To John Murray 14 February [1872]
Summary
Asks to have copy of Origin [6th ed.] sent to the Pall Mall Gazette for review with Mivart’s Genesis [of species (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Feb [1872] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (11 December 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8212 |
From W. W. Reade 20 May 1872
Summary
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8341 |
From W. W. Reade 7 September 1872
Summary
Sends extract [from Carl Johan Andersson, Lake Ngami (1856)] on expression.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8514 |
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 13 February 1872 …
- … 1872 , but may have discussed more topics when he visited CD on 19 March (see letter from W. W. Reade, …
- … Reade 1872 ). The publisher’s marked copy of the Athenæum in the library of City University, London, indicates that the author of the notice was the editor of the Athenæum , Norman MacColl . See also Correspondence vol. 19, letter from W. W. …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 5 November 1872 …
- … W. Reade, 14 October [1872] . Reade refers to Thomas Henry Huxley . In Reade 1873 , Reade …
- … Reade 1873 ). Expression was reviewed in the Daily News , 5 November 1872, p. 2, and the Daily Telegraph , 5 November 1872, p. 5. There are copies in DAR 226.2: 122, 124–5. The author of the review of Expression in the Pall Mall Gazette , 23 April 1873, pp. 11–12, has not been identified. See also letter from W. …
From W. W. Reade 12 September [1872]
Summary
Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8519 |
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 |
From W. W. Reade 18 February 1872
Summary
Compares Origin to Newton’s Principia and Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations.
His view of CD’s response to Mivart.
On mammae;
gradualism of evolution;
suicide among savages.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8218 |
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 |
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 |
From W. W. Reade 18 September 1871
Summary
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7950 |
To W. W. Reade 30 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7255 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Reade, W. W. | (25) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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Murray, John (b) | (1) |