From James Torbitt 12 September 1878
James Torbitt, | 58 North Street. | Belfast,
12 Septr 1878
Charles Darwin Esqr. | Down.
My dear Sir,
Your kind letter of 28th. June last I propose to reply to later on, meantime I have forwarded to your address a specimen of what I suspect to be a new species of the genus solanum and would ask you to kindly say would you or Sir J. Hooker care to have a plant of it growing?1
I am my dear Sir | most respectfully yours | James Torbitt
Footnotes
See letter to James Torbitt, 28 June 1878. Torbitt sent a specimen of Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade or bittersweet (see letter from James Torbitt, 16 September 1878). Torbitt was principally interested in potatoes, which are also members of the genus Solanum. Joseph Dalton Hooker was the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Summary
Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11689
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 146
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11689,” accessed on 9 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11689.xml
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