From T. H. Farrer 8 March 1880
Board of Trade, | Whitehall Gardens. | S.W.
8–3–80
My dear Mr Darwin
I inclose some copies of your letter: and will write again after seeing Caird. I quite agree with the suggestion that you should write to the Times.1
We had a very pleasant visit at Oxford—infinite chatter2
Ever yrs | T H Farrer
If you want more copies please say so
Footnotes
In his letter to Farrer of 7 [March 1880], CD had asked for copies of his earlier letters to Farrer (probably including the enclosure to his letter to Farrer of 7 March 1878 (Correspondence vol. 26)) to assist him in writing a letter to The Times to invite subscriptions to enable James Torbitt to continue his blight-resistant potato research. James Caird was collecting subscriptions; see second letter from T. H. Farrer, 8 March 1880.
In Oxford, Farrer met with his daughter, Ida Darwin, and her husband, CD’s son Horace (letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 March 1880 and n. 6, and letter from Emma Darwin to Ida Darwin, 26 February 1880 (DAR 258: 627)).
Summary
Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12527
- From
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Board of Trade
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 99
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12527,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 28
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