To James Torbitt 26 January 1876
Summary
Obliged for Belfast Journal.
Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10368 |
To James Torbitt 4 April 1876
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10440 |
To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10442 |
To James Torbitt 14 April 1876
Summary
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter, 22 April 1876, p. 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10451 |
To James Torbitt 21 April 1876
Summary
Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.
Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10463 |
To James Torbitt 10 April [1876]
Summary
JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11468 |
