From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 99
Summary:
Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.
Answers EK’s questions. Sorry to report Erasmus Darwin sold only 600 copies at advance sale.
Thanks for the offer of lending a manuscript relating to his grandfather. It will be of use if a second edition of the Life of Dr. Darwin should appear. Will take the greatest care of them and return them as soon as he has read them.
Describes problems of raising money [for potato experiments]. "A Government official in another office remarked to me that it was very difficult for Ministers to decide what to do in such cases as they must be prepared for mere cavillers in the H[ouse] of Commons."