My dear Sir

(please do not reply)

Enclosed I have the pleasure to send you Mr Kennedy’s report. The estate is situated on Clew Bay and reaches from the shore four miles inland.¹

He has missed the point of my enquiry which was, does or or does not, the potato grow as well on your estate in the West of Ireland as it does here in the East. He has not called today but on his return I shall have his reply.

In two weeks I hope to be able to make my own report, and to reply to your kind letter of 28^th. June last.² Meantime in so far as I may presume to form an opinion I think it quite possible that varieties of the potato may be found into the plants of which the parasite will be unable to penetrate so far as the tuber.

I am My dear Sir with profound respect faithfully yours J. Torbitt