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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, T. H.
Date:
21 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 665
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Darwin Family Letters
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Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.
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.
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.
Statement of money transactions with James Torbitt and record of year’s success enclosed. Torbitt desires him to return £90. He is doubtful of being able to continue this spring.