From W. W. Reade 12 September [1872]1
11 St. Mary Abbot’s Terrace | Kensington
Sept. 12.
My dear Sir
I have no doubt entire change of work will be a relief to you; it must be the greatest of blessings to be able to work without being obliged to read or write books—a blessing literary men may not enjoy— I am quite done up for the time being, having dyspepsia & all its attendant woes & start to day on a short pedestrian trip— On my return to London I shall take lodgings near the British Museum & try to finish off my travels.2 Very many thanks for your kind inquiries respecting my book. It is a failure but not a discouraging one.3 I use certain parts relating to Africa in my forthcoming work. When I come back to London I will send you my new address— with some little hesitation for I really do not deserve the rather lavish enconiums therein contained I send you a critique from a Yorkshire paper— It may however interest you as showing what the ladies of the present age are capable of in the way of free thinking. The writer is the wife of a [commoner] so I am told.— & likes the book because she is such an enthusiast for the Cause.4
I remain yours very truly | Winwood Reade
Footnotes
Bibliography
Reade, William Winwood. 1872. The martyrdom of man. London: Trübner & Co.
Reade, William Winwood. 1873. The African sketch-book. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.
Summary
Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8519
- From
- William Winwood Reade
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kensington
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 63
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8519,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8519.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20