To James Torbitt 4 April 1876
Down,
April 4, 1876.
Dear Sir
I thank you for your very obliging letter and present of the essay and seeds.1 I cannot but think that the principle on which you are acting is right, and if you succeed you will have conferred an enormous benefit on the public.2 I am sorry that I was compelled to decline my answer being published, for I cannot to the present hour remember what I said3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin.
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.
Summary
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10440
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Torbitt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 92
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10440,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10440.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24