To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1878]
Summary
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11412F |
From J. D. Hooker 12 March 1878
Summary
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 105–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11417 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 March 1878]
Summary
CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 Mar 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 451–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11386 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 or 4 March 1878]
Summary
His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.
CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 or 4 Mar 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 453–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11390 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
