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To T. H. Farrer   7 [March 1880]

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Describes subscription for Torbitt [to continue potato experiments]. Would dislike writing to any paper, but Hensleigh [Wedgwood] and Erasmus [Darwin] advise CD to write to the Times.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  7 [Mar 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 101; DAR 177: 340
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12523

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  • Hensleigh Wedgwood and Erasmus Alvey Darwin . See letter to James Torbitt, 6 March [1880] . See second letter from James Torbitt, 5 March 1880 . CD is probably referring to the enclosure to his letter to Farrer of 7 March 1878 ( Correspondence vol. 26), which went through several drafts. See letter to T. H. …

To James Caird   24 March 1880

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Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Caird
Date:  24 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12546

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  • Farrer had given £25 to Torbitt’s scheme, Charles and Alfred Morrison £25 each, Caird £5 and Julian Goldsmid £5; see letter from T. H. Farrer, 8 March 1880 and enclosure. CD’s brother-in-law was Hensleigh Wedgwood ; …
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