From James Torbitt [after 18 October 1878]1
Sent to Counter-balance Mr Kennedy’s unfavourable report.2
I am busy examining varieties of 1875, tuber by tuber, and hope to report in a few days
most respectfully | J. Torbitt
[Enclosure]
Lismoyne, | Dunmurry, | Co. Antrim.
18 October 1878
Sir,
I will be obliged if you can give me one puncheon & one cut in two halves similar to the one I have already got from you, of course I mean all to be second hand.3
I am still persevering with the potatoes grown from the seed, the crop has been always large & free from disease4 & each year the shape is better, I of course reject all unshapely ones when planting in Spring.
Yours very truly | Geo Callwell
Footnotes
Bibliography
OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.
Summary
Forwards letter from George Callwell reporting what a large and disease-free potato crop JT’s seed yields.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11724
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 149
- Physical description
- ALS 1p, encl ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11724,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11724.xml
