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Darwin Correspondence Project

From Briton Riviere   22 November 1872

16 Addison Road | Kensington W

Nov 22/72

My dear Sir

You must have thought me very remiss for not writing to thank you for your kindness in sending me your book, but I have only just returned home after a nearly six months absence & from some mistake the book was never forwarded to me.1

Please accept my best thanks for it now & believe me Dear Sir | Yours very truly | Briton Riviere

Charles Darwin Esq

Footnotes

Riviere’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Expression (Appendix V); Riviere had made two of the illustrations (see Correspondence vol. 19, and this volume).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.

Summary

Thanks for Expression.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8641
From
Briton Riviere
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kensington
Source of text
DAR 176: 182
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8641,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8641.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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