To Briton Riviere 27 June [1871]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
June 27
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your interesting letter which Miss Bonham Carter has forwarded to me.2 My notion was that the grinning from affection is the carrying on through habit of the uncovering of the lips as in biting in play, and I thought that the drawing back of the ears would be some confirmation of this idea. But what you say about the ears being drawn back from affection had already occurred to me after speaking to Miss Bonham Carter; so that I must leave my notion as dubious as ever.3
With sincere thanks | I remain, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Discusses animal drawing showing expression.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7835
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Briton Riviere
- Sent from
- London Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 317
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7835,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7835.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
