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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:

Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].

Discusses mimetic insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (Fall 1996 catalogue)
Summary:

Would be delighted to see CVR at Down, but is in precarious health and cannot talk to anyone for more than an hour.

Wrote to CVR a few weeks ago to thank him for his book [see 7794].

Will expect CVR on Thursday unless he hears otherwise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
8 July [1871]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (15 January 2010)
Summary:

Thanks for letter of introduction for his sons visiting America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
30 May 1875
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (August 2005)
Summary:

Thanks for the seventh of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
25 June [1875]
Source of text:
Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008)
Summary:

Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.

Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 6)
Summary:

Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project