From James Torbitt 3 April 1878
58 North Street. | Belfast,
3 April 1878
Charles Darwin Esq. | Down.
My dear Sir,
I accept of your £100 check with the greatest pleasure and am not in the least discouraged or disappointed, on the contrary, I propose this year to grow not five, but fifteen thousand new varieties, for every plant of which, your money shall pay— and I am proud that it should do so.1
I remain my Dear Sir ever | Most respectfully | and gratefully yours | James Torbitt
Footnotes
CD had sent a cheque for £100 on 4 March to aid Torbitt’s attempts to breed a disease-resistant potato; Torbitt had returned the cheque when he discovered that he would only need two later payments of £50 in May and August (see letter to James Torbitt, 4 March 1878, and letter from James Torbitt, 24 March 1878). CD, however, sent the cheque for £100 back to Torbitt after Thomas Henry Farrer explained the difficulty of getting government funding for the experiments (see letter to James Torbitt, 31 March 1878).
Summary
Thanks for £100; will pay for planting this year’s varieties.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11462
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 144
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11462,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11462.xml
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