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DCP-LETT-8210

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

DCP-LETT-8215

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

DCP-LETT-8218

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8221

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
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