To C. V. Riley   30 May 18751

Down, Beckenham, Kent

My Dear Sir

I received this morning your seventh annual Report, & am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent it to me.2 As far as my memory serves me I did not thank you for that last report, but there is not one which you have published in which I have not found much matter which has interested me greatly [. . .]3

Believe me my dear Sir. | Charles Darwin

LS incomplete4

1
The date is given in the sale catalogue.
2
CD refers to the seventh of Riley’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77).
3
The first report sent by Riley to CD in 1871 was the third of his Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77); thereafter he sent the reports to CD annually. CD’s annotated copies are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 710–12).
4
The original letter is complete and is described in the sale catalogue as being two pages long.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10002F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10002F