From E. J. A. Bristow to H. E. Litchfield 11 March 1878
Belfast
11th. March | /78
My dear Madam
My cousin Miss Laird has requested me to write to you with any information I could collect about Mr Torbet, which I willingly do.1
Mr James Torbet is in the wholesale Wine & Spirit trade and this is the only unfavorable thing I can hear about him he owns or farms a great number of Public Houses both in Belfast and neighbourhood his Bankers report that he is a highly respectable man who has made money2
I may say that the opinion of the Public is that he is rich and highly respectable He has spent a good deal of money in his experiments on potato growing and I believe has been very successful.
If I can be of any further service or can get you any more information shall be delighted to do so and as time seems of some importance please write to me direct
Believe me Dr Madam | Yours very truly | E. J. Bristow d/wt Jas & Robt Young | Belfast
Footnotes
Bibliography
Belfast and province of Ulster directory. Belfast: James Alexander Henderson, News-Letter Office. 1852–1900.
Summary
Reports on the standing of James Torbitt: "the opinion of the Public is that he is rich and highly respectable".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11414
- From
- Edward Jones Agnew Bristow
- To
- Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 304
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11414,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11414.xml