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From W. W. Reade   14 October [1872]1

13 Alfred Place | Bedford Square | W.C.

Oct. 14

My dear Sir

This is now my address— I applied for the reviewal of your book on Expression at the Pall Mall Gazette. The Editor told me he means to ask Huxley to do it.2 If anything prevents him from reviewing it then I shall have it. I did not know Huxley wrote for the paper— of course he wd. be competent to criticise it & hope he will. All that I cd. do wd. be to make a clear statement of your theory— There was a review in the “Saturday” last Saturday on the Mdm. of Man3—about the first real critique I have had.

Hoping you are in good health | I remain | Yours very truly | Winwood Reade

CD annotations

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1
The year is established by the reference to Expression, which was published in November 1872 (Freeman 1977).
2
Reade refers to Frederick Greenwood and Thomas Henry Huxley. An anonymous review of Expression was published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 23 April 1873, pp. 11–12. The author has not been identified.
3
An anonymous review of The martyrdom of man (Reade 1872) had appeared in the Saturday Review, 12 October 1872, pp. 474–5.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8558,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8558