From James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Belfast,
6th April, 1876.
Letter received with profound thanks. I can make it suppress the potato-disease five years sooner, if published. May I?1
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
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10441
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10441,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10441.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
