To T. H. Farrer   11 March 1878

Down. | Beckenham, Kent (&c).

March 11th. 1878.

My dear Farrer.

I have returned the letter to Mr Caird and thanked him,1 I have also despatched my letter corrected as you suggest to Hooker, and told him what you & Mr. Caird will probably do, and that his judgment will be final.2

With hearty thanks. | Yours very sincerely. | Ch. Darwin—

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1
The letter from James Caird has not been found; it had been enclosed with the second letter from T. H. Farrer, 9 March 1878.
2
CD had written a letter of support for James Torbitt’s experiments on the breeding of blight-resistant potatoes (see letter to T. H. Farrer, 7 March 1878 and enclosure, and the first and second letters from T. H. Farrer, 9 March 1878). The corrected version sent to Joseph Dalton Hooker has not been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11412,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11412