To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Down,
6th April, 1876.
You may publish what I have said.1
Footnotes
See letter from James Torbitt, 6 April 1876 and n. 1. CD’s words in his letter of 4 April 1876 were paraphrased in the Daily Telegraph, 18 April 1876, p. 5; see letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 and n. 7.
Bibliography
Torbitt, James. 1876. Cras credemus. A treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease, and a yield of thirty, forty or more tons of tubers per statute acre. (Sent, accompanied by a packet of seed, to each member of the House of Lords; each member of the House of Commons; and the principal landlords of Ulster.) Belfast: printed by Alexander Mayne.
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10442
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Torbitt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10442,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10442.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
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