From W. W. Reade 31 August [1873]1
171 Stanhope St. | Euston Road | NW
Aug. 31.
My dear Sir
Very many thanks for your kind letter.2 There is no doubt that the tales were a mistake & the book is altogether too flimsy. I think I shall recompose it for a cheap edition, & merely write a narrative of my exploring journey, working in ethnological matter &c.3 However that will not be just yet I shall have another book on Africa to write first in all probability as I am going to the Ashanti War as special correspondent for the Times, leaving Liverpool on the 12th.— They give me £50 a month & my expenses, & power to republish. I suppose I shall be back in the spring at furthest—4
I think I am now acquainted with all the Darwinian points but if there is any new line of inquiry you can suggest, pray do so, and oblige me | your faithful disciple | Winwood Reade
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Reade, William Winwood. 1873. The African sketch-book. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.
Summary
Going to the Ashanti war as Times correspondent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9036
- From
- William Winwood Reade
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Stanhope St, 171
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 70
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9036,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9036.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
