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To T. H. Farrer   [after 2 March 1878]1

[4 Bryanston Street, London.]

My dear Farrer.

The enclosed came whilst you were here. but I did not open it.2

Yours &c. | C. Darwin.

P.S. I think the best plan would be to send the long letter to you (after corrections, additions & parts omitted.) to Hooker & get him to express an opinion on the whole scheme.—3

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1
The date is established by the reference to CD’s ‘long letter’ (see n. 3, below).
2
The enclosure has not been identified. Farrer visited CD in London on 28 March 1878 (letter to James Torbitt, [28 February 1878]), and possibly later.
3
CD planned to make revisions to his letter to Farrer of 2 March 1878 (see letter to T. H. Farrer, [4 March 1878]). CD had also been consulting Joseph Dalton Hooker about James Torbitt’s plan to breed blight-resistant potatoes (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1878]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11401,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11401