From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 133
Summary:
Sends some potato plants and tubers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 134
Summary:
JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 135
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project