To James Torbitt 31 March 1878
Down,
March 31, 1878.
My dear Sir
I have just heard from Mr. Farrer, whose advice I had determined to follow, as he has great good sense and experience, and I know can be trusted. He advises me to send back the £100, which I now do, and I trust that you will not refuse to accept it, but adds “if there were reason to suppose that any great additional work could be effected this year by sending more money, it could no doubt be done”.1 But he seems to think from your note and what I have told him, it would be better to be contented with less extensive operations.2 He then says that if you go on with your experiments next year he and Mr. Caird3 feel sure that they could easily get another £100. He remarks that “getting money from the Government for a new thing is an endless business”.
Footnotes
Summary
Sends £100 to JT. T. H. Farrer and James Caird think they can get another £100 next year [for potato experiments].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11458
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Torbitt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 103
- Physical description
- C 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11458,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11458.xml