From T. H. Farrer 28 February 1878
Board of Trade, | Whitehall Gardens. | S.W.
28.2.78
My dear Mr Darwin
Caird takes it up warmly. He will see the Agricultural Society people.1 They have recently taken up the carrying on of Lawes experiments on a piece of land very liberally devoted to this purpose by the Duke of Bedford; and Caird thinks they will very likely take up this potato experiment if they think it promising—2 Any further information and any hints from you will be very welcome.
You shall hear anything further Caird tells me
Ever yours sincerely | T H Farrer
If this goes on it will be much better than Government
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
CD’s quest for Government support for potato experiments by James Torbitt.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11384
- From
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Board of Trade
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 86
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11384,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11384.xml
