From Briton Riviere   22 November 1872

16 Addison Road | Kensington W

Nov 22/72

My dear Sir

You must have thought me very remiss for not writing to thank you for your kindness in sending me your book, but I have only just returned home after a nearly six months absence & from some mistake the book was never forwarded to me.1

Please accept my best thanks for it now & believe me Dear Sir | Yours very truly | Briton Riviere

Charles Darwin Esq

Riviere’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Expression (Appendix V); Riviere had made two of the illustrations (see Correspondence vol. 19, and this volume).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8641,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8641