To James Torbitt 7 November 1879
Down,
Nov. 7, 1879.
My dear Sir
I wrote at considerable length yesterday to Mr. Farrer of the Board of Trade, with several extracts from your letter together with the printed documents.1 I said I thought it would be a national calamity if you were prevented from trying the successful varieties during a few years more and raising new varieties from them. I also said the case appeared to me a proper one for Government assistance. What Mr. Farrer will do I cannot of course tell but in a former note he said he thought Lord Sandon was the best member of the Government to consult.2 I was very much pleased to see in your last letter that you thought you had been quite successful in raising a fungus-proof variety, but pray do not be too sanguine until they have been tested during two or three seasons.3
With all good wishes believe me my dear Sir | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Summary
Wrote to T. H. Farrer about JT’s potato experiments. Would be calamity if JT were prevented from trying successful fungus-proof variety for a few more years.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12297
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Torbitt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 108
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12297,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12297.xml