From James Torbitt 1 April 1876
Sydenham | Belfast
1 April 1876
Charles Darwin Esq. | Down | Beckenham | Kent.
Dear Sir
With the greatest respect permit me to thank you for your kindness in replying to my question what is an individual?1 and to apologize for my absurd request for liberty to publish it.
I was applying to Mr Murray for liberty to reprint one page of “The Variations of Animals and Plants under domestication” which was granted, and the total differences of the requests did not strike me and I sent on the two telegrams together.2
I beg leave to take the librety of enclosing paper on pages 46 to 54 of which, are some reports on potatoes grown from the seed last season, which perhaps you might like to see, and which is the first copy issued.3
Permit me Dear Sir to subscribe myself | most respectfully yours | James Torbitt
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10437
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 131
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10437,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10437.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24