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DCP-LETT-12479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 100
Summary:

Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1356

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, T. H.
Date:
21 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 665
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

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.

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DCP-LETT-12956

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
30 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 102
Summary:

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.

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