From James Torbitt [3 March 1880]
Handed in at the Waring St Belfast Office at .m. Received here at 4.50 .m.
From James Torbitt | Belfast
To Charles Darwin | Down | Beckenham Kent
The potatoes are now growing and will be lost millions worth of them unless I have Immediate authority to proceede1
Footnotes
Torbitt had asked CD for help with securing a loan from the Government to continue developing his varieties of blight-resistant potato; see letter from James Torbitt, 12 February 1880, and letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 February 1880.
Summary
Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12507
- From
- James Torbitt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belfast
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 160
- Physical description
- T
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12507,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12507.xml
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