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To T. L. Brunton   10 March 1880

Summary

Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:  10 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 143: 169
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12529

To James Torbitt   10 March 1880

Summary

Sends funds for potato experiments. Asks for information on progress.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  10 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12530

To James Torbitt   11 March [1880]

Summary

Queries how much land has been used to cultivate potato varieties, and how many seedlings have been raised in any one year.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  11 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  Bonhams (dealers) (9 November 2016)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12530F

To James Torbitt   12 March [1880]

Summary

Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  12 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 115
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12535

To [William Whitaker?]   16 March 1880

Summary

Thanks for sending article on inheritance.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Whitaker
Date:  16 Mar 1880
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12537

To James Torbitt   17 March [1880]

Summary

Asks for additional information about JT’s potato experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  17 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12538

To James Torbitt   20 March 1880

Summary

Thanks for letter and documents [about potato experiments]. Will send testimonial letter to James Caird to be circulated among possible financial supporters of JT’s work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  20 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12539

To Asa Gray   20 March [1880]

Summary

Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".

Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  20 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12541

To Ernst Krause   23 March 1880

Summary

Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  23 Mar 1880
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12543

To Asa Gray   24 March [1880]

Summary

Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.

Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  24 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12545

To James Caird   24 March 1880

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Summary

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

To James Caird?   [24 March 1880]

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Summary

Discusses James Torbitt’s plan for selective breeding of potatoes, mentioning that he needs and deserves financial aid.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Caird
Date:  [24 Mar 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 52: E7v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12547

To James Caird   24 March 1880

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Draft of a statement about Torbitt’s experiments on potatoes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Caird
Date:  24 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 52: B9–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12548

To James Torbitt   28 March 1880

Summary

"[James] Caird seems satisfied with what I have said of your method and the results hitherto attained." Can now promise to send £90 in the autumn.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  28 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 118
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12552

To C. W. Fox   29 March 1880

Summary

Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Woodd Fox
Date:  29 Mar 1880
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12554

To James Torbitt   30 March 1880

Summary

Encloses letter about JT’s potato experiments sent to T. H. Farrer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  30 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 119
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12555

To G. H. Schneider   3 April 1880

Summary

CD thanks the author for the copy of Der thierische Wille.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Georg Heinrich Schneider
Date:  3 Apr 1880
Classmark:  Alfred S. Posamentier (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12560F

To Adolf Ernst   4 April 1880

Summary

Thanks for interesting letter; is sure it would be worth while to test fertility of illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants.

Would welcome any information on occurrence of bloom-covered leaves on dry plains.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  4 Apr 1880
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8973)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12561

To W. E. Darwin   5 [April 1880]

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Discusses a book

and the "splendid news about the elections".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  5 [Apr 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12564

To Henry Faulds   7 April 1880

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Faulds
Date:  7 Apr 1880
Classmark:  Faulds [1912?], pp. 22–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12564F
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