From Briton Riviere 6 June 1872
Rathelpie | St. Andrews
June 6 1872
My dear Sir
Thank you for your kind letter which was forwarded to me today but too late for me to catch the post.1
I myself requested Mr Cooper to send me proofs as soon as possible. This is an important thing as very often they need much correction & look very different to the drawings.2
Pray do not take my name out of your introduction. If you have been kind enough to put it there it will be a pleasure to me The only reasons that I have for being timid in putting my name to wood drawings are first that I do not consider my work in that material at all happy, & secondly that I fear the engravers rendering of it.3
I am Dear Sir | Very truly yours | Briton Riviere
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Will need to see proofs of his drawings.
Flattered to be mentioned in introduction to Expression [p. 26].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8371
- From
- Briton Riviere
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- St Andrews
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 181
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8371,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8371.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20