From H. E. Stanley to James Torbitt 29 December 1877
Alderley Park
Decr. 29/77
Sir
in reply to your letter inquiring as to the result of the potatoe seed you sent to me in 1876, I find that potatoes raised this year from seedlings grown from your seed sown last year, are of a good size and have kept sound up to this date, whilst the ordinary potatoes about here had begun early to become unsound.1
yours obediently | Stanley
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DeArce, Miguel. 2008. Correspondence of Charles Darwin on James Torbitt’s project to breed blight-resistant potatoes. Archives of Natural History 35: 208–22.
Torbitt, James. 1876. Cras credemus. A treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease, and a yield of thirty, forty or more tons of tubers per statute acre. (Sent, accompanied by a packet of seed, to each member of the House of Lords; each member of the House of Commons; and the principal landlords of Ulster.) Belfast: printed by Alexander Mayne.
Summary
Reports on potatoes grown from Torbitt’s seed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11296
- From
- Henry Edward John Stanley, 3d Baron Stanley and 2d Baron Eddisbury
- To
- James Torbitt
- Sent from
- Alderley Park
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 245
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11296,” accessed on 2 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11296.xml
