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From W. W. Reade   6 November 1870

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W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1870
Classmark:  DAR 176: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7359

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  • … African sketch-book. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. Tennent, James Emerson. 1859. …

From W. W. Reade   9 November 1870

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Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov 1870
Classmark:  DAR 85: 109–112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7363

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  • … William Winwood. 1873. The African sketch-book. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. …
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