From Briton Riviere 22 May 1872
16 Addison Rd | K.
May 22/72
Dear Sir
Thank you for your letter I shall certainly have another trial at the pleased dog1
I should very much like to have any of your books especially the “Origin of Species.2
Believe me | Very truly yours | Briton Riviere
Mr Cooper will I suppose send me another block with the sketch of the first dog.3
Footnotes
CD’s letter has not been found. Riviere was making drawings of dogs for Expression (see letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872]).
In the missing letter, CD had evidently offered Riviere books in place of a gift of money (see letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872], and letter from Briton Riviere, 20 May 1872).
James Davis Cooper was engraving woodcuts for Expression; CD had approved Riviere’s drawing of a hostile dog (‘the first dog’), with slight modifications (see letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872]).
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Will try again to draw the expression of a pleased dog.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8346
- From
- Briton Riviere
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kensington
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 178
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8346,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8346.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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