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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 52
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 53
Summary:

Defends Descent against CD’s self-disparagement. The parts on the moral sense seem to him the finest in the book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 74–5
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 54
Summary:

Saw editor of the Pall Mall Gazette about review of Origin and Genesis of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 55
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 56
Summary:

Plans for visit to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 57
Summary:

Will see CD tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 58
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 59
Summary:

Glad Mrs Darwin likes his preface, but fears she will not like his tone on religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 60
Summary:

WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 61
Summary:

His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 62
Summary:

Sends extract [from Carl Johan Andersson, Lake Ngami (1856)] on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 63
Summary:

Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 64
Summary:

Huxley will be asked to review Expression in Pall Mall Gazette.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 65
Summary:

Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project