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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 20 September 1871 …
- … W. Reade, 18 September 1871 and n. 2. Reade refers to Mivart’s …
- … 1871a ). See letter from W. W. Reade, 18 September 1871 ). Reade refers to Henry Walter …
- … 1871 ([Mivart] 1871c). CD’s letter to Reade has not been found, but see the letter from W. …
- … Reade visited Down from 28 to 30 January 1871 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Reade travelled in West Africa between 1868 and 1870 ( Correspondence vol. 18, letter from W. …
- … Reade refers to Samuel White Baker and Nile tributaries of Abyssinia ( S. W. Baker 1867 , p. 189). CD cited Baker for this information in Origin 6th ed. , p. 178. Reade’s Martyrdom of man ( Reade 1872 ) was published in May 1872 ( Athenæum , 11 May 1872, p. 589); his African sketch-book ( Reade 1873 ) was not published until 1873. CD replied to several of Mivart’s objections in Origin 6th ed. ; see letter to George Busk, 2 September [1871] …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 25 September 1871 …
- … See letter from W. W. Reade, 20 September 1871 and n. 6. CD’s letter requesting the …
- … 1867 ); see also letter from W. W. Reade, 20 September 1871 and n. 6. Baker described …
- … 1869 ); see letter from W. W. Reade, 20 September 1871 and n. 4. Reade probably refers …
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871 …
- … W. Reade, 10 January 1871 and n. 1. He finished correcting the page-proofs of Descent …
- … Reade has not been found. Reade visited Down with Joseph Dalton Hooker , Albert Günther , and Robert Swinhoe from 28 to 30 January 1871 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD cited Reade in Descent and Expression. The most recent extant letter from Reade to CD is that of 10 January 1871. CD used some of the information that Reade sent him in the second edition of Descent ; see letter from W. …
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 4 March 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871 …
- … 17). See also letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871 . Reade returned to Africa in …
- … 1871. Marginalia : Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Reade, …
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 |
From W. W. Reade 31 January 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7468 |
From W. W. Reade 10 January 1871
Summary
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 |
From W. W. Reade 1 February 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7473 |
From W. W. Reade 6 January [1871]
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429 |
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 |
From St George Jackson Mivart 24 February [1871]
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5926 |
From W. W. Reade 21 February 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 172–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7501 |
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 |
From Andrew Smith 17 April 1871
Summary
On Hottentots’ blushing.
Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7694 |
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 |
From Andrew Smith 26 February 1871
Summary
Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516 |
To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
From W. W. Reade 20 May 1872
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8341 |
From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871
Summary
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7956 |
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Reade, W. W. | (18) |
Smith, Andrew | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Reade, W. W. | (18) |
Smith, Andrew | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |