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DCP-LETT-12523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 [Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 101; DAR 177: 340
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
9 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 46
Summary:

Thanks THF for his contribution; now has £170 to permit Torbitt to carry on his experiments. Describes the scale of the experiments and his belief in their value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 169
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 114
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12530F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
11 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (9 November 2016)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
12 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 115
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitaker
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for sending article on inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 116
Summary:

Asks for additional information about JT’s potato experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 117
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Summary:

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

Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Caird
Date:
24 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 118
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 119
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12560F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
Date:
3 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Alfred S. Posamentier (private collection)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12561

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8973)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 156
Summary:

Discusses a book

and the "splendid news about the elections".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12564F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Faulds
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Faulds [1912?], pp. 22–3
Summary:

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Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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