From William Winwood Reade 19 May 1868
Summary
Going to the Gold Coast. Will collect plants for Kew.
Offers his services. Particularly interested in making inquiries for CD about the human race.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6186 |
From W. W. Reade 23 May 1868
Summary
Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.
Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6202 |
From W. W. Reade 28 June [1869]
Summary
Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6260 |
From William Winwood Reade 17 January 1869
Summary
Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.
Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.
Castrated rams lose horns and manes.
Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6558 |
To W. W. Reade 21 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.
Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,
and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Asks about African ideas of beauty.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6754 |
From W. W. Reade 26 December 1869
Summary
Has seen some natives who express surprise by clapping the hand to mouth.
Reports on a tribe that sells its ugliest slaves in order to maintain its uniformly fine appearance.
In America in 1867 Darwinism was a fait accompli. Asa Gray’s religious defence unnecessary after Theodore Parker and Emerson.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7036 |
From William Winwood Reade [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]
Summary
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 or 9] Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7069 |
From W. W. Reade 24 April 1870
Summary
Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7172 |
From W. W. Reade 4 June 1870
Summary
The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.
Believes the Jollops select for blackness.
Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.
Has found stone instruments.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7216 |
To W. W. Reade 30 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7255 |
From W. W. Reade 3 September 1870
Summary
Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.
Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7315 |
From W. W. Reade 6 November 1870
Summary
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 |
From W. W. Reade 9 November 1870
Summary
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 |
From W. W. Reade 11 November 1870
Summary
Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7367 |
From W. W. Reade 20 December 1870
Summary
CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7399 |
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
Summary
Meeting with CD postponed.
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
Summary
Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
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
Summary
Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7473 |
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