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From W. W. Reade   16 January 1871

11 Saint Mary Abbot’s Terrace, | Kensington. W.

Jan. 16. 71

My dear Sir

Very many thanks for your kind note. It would certainly give me much pleasure to have half an hour’s chat with you: but as I am settled here probably for a long time to come pray postpone it till you are in full health & leisure.1 I feel it a great honour to have my views put forward in a work of yours.2 I sent you another little note on human selection.3 It crossed your letter to me. But of course it is too late to use anything now: and you must be very glad that you are going to get a little rest.4

I remain | Yours very truly | Winwood Reade

1
CD’s letter to 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)).
2
CD cited Reade in Descent and Expression.
3
The most recent extant letter from Reade to CD is that of 10 January 1871.
4
CD used some of the information that Reade sent him in the second edition of Descent; see letter from W. W. Reade, 10 January 1871 and n. 1. He finished correcting the page-proofs of Descent on 15 January 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7443,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7443