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DCP-LETT-10440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 92
Summary:

Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.

Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:

JT may publish CD’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:

JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter , 22 April 1876, p. 2
Summary:

Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
21 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 94
Summary:

Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.

Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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