From Briton Riviere 3 April 1872
16 Addison Road, | Kensington. W.
April 3/72
Dear Sir
I shall be very glad indeed if I can succeed in drawing the two expressions that you want.1 I think that I understand your descriptions perfectly, whether I can carry them out is another question.
Will you kindly ask your wood engraver2 to send me a couple of blocks of the size required, as if I can manage the expressions I may as well put them at once onto the wood. This will be no inconvenience to me & will I think be better for the drawings.
I quite understand your objections to Landseers “Alexander” in reference to expression No 1.3
Trusting that I shall not cause delay & then fail in my part of the work I am Dear Sir | Yours truly | Briton Riviere
The German drawing shall be taken care of4
Charles Darwin Esq
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8271
- From
- Briton Riviere
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kensington
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 175
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8271,” accessed on 26 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8271.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20