From James Torbitt 16 September 1878
James Torbitt, | 58 North Street. | Belfast,
16 Septr 1878
Charles Darwin Esq. | Down
My dear Sir
I am sorry to have troubled you with my stupid mistake regarding the solanum dulcamara.1 Crossing these by seed should have shown me the error little as I know. I am grateful for your good wishes for the success of my experiments—so far as they have gone they lead me towards the belief that by cross fertilization and selection varieties of the potato may be obtained much more prolific and much less subject to the “disease” than the varieties now in cultivation in the North of Ireland, and in a few weeks I hope to furnish full report.2
Most respectfully and faithfully my dear Sir | James Torbitt
Footnotes
Summary
Apologises for his error over the Solanum.
Thanks CD for his good wishes; JT believes he will increase yield and disease-resistance by his crossing and selection.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11696
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 147
- Physical description
- 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11696,” accessed on 8 May 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-11696.xml
