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From Briton Riviere   26 May 1872

May 26/72

Dear Sir

Pray accept my best thanks for the two books which I shall value much.1

I am going to Scotland tomorrow week but I hope to send you the other sketch before then & I will see Cooper about the cutting of the blocks.2

I am dear Sir | Yours truly | Briton Riviere

1
A copy of Journal of researches, inscribed ‘Briton Riviere from the author May 1872’, was acquired by an antiquarian bookseller (19th Century Shop, private correspondence). The other book sent to Riviere by CD to thank him for providing sketches of dogs for Expression has not been found; he had mentioned Origin as a book that he would like in his letter of 22 May 1872.
2
The ‘other sketch’ was an a second attempt at an affectionate dog; James Davis Cooper was making woodcuts from Riviere’s sketches (see letter from Briton Riviere, 22 May 1872).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8353,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8353