From T. H. Farrer   20 March 1878

Board of Trade, | Whitehall Gardens. | S.W.

20 March/78

My dear Mr Darwin,

I saw Caird yesterday & agreed that I should write to ask you if you yet know what Mr Torbitt proposes to do with your £100, and whether he will want another £100 or more at once or soon.1 We have no doubt we could soon get him another £100 from private sources

Sincerely yours | T H Farrer

1
CD was working with Farrer and James Caird to obtain government aid for James Torbitt’s potato experiments; CD had sent Torbitt a cheque for £100 to be used if official aid was not forthcoming (see letter from James Torbitt, 6 March 1878).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11435,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11435