From W. W. Reade 6 January [1871]
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429 |
From W. W. Reade 10 January 1871
Summary
Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.
Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7435 |
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
From W. W. Reade 31 January 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7468 |
From W. W. Reade 1 February 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7473 |
From W. W. Reade 21 February 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 172–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7501 |
From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
From W. W. Reade 12 September 1871
Summary
Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.
Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7936 |
From W. W. Reade 15 September 1871
Summary
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7947 |
From W. W. Reade 18 September 1871
Summary
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7950 |
From W. W. Reade 20 September 1871
Summary
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7955 |
From W. W. Reade 25 September 1871
Summary
Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].
Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A49; DAR 176: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7968 |
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