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
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]
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
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]
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 |
letter | (327) |
Torbitt, James | (17) |
Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
Huxley, T. H. | (14) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
Krause, Ernst | (13) |