From James Torbitt   6 April 1876

Belfast,

6th April, 1876.

Letter received with profound thanks. I can make it suppress the potato-disease five years sooner, if published. May I?1

An article in the Daily Telegraph, 18 April 1876, p. 5, paraphrased CD’s comments in his letter to Torbitt of 4 April 1876. See letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 and n. 7.
The text of this telegram, the telegram to James Torbitt, 6 April 1876, and the letter from James Torbitt, 7 April 1876, are from a printed sheet headed ‘Authorized copy’ formerly inserted into a copy of Torbitt 1876 at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin. The text of the letter to Torbitt of 4 April 1876 is also on the sheet, although the text in this volume has been reproduced from the copy in DAR 148: 92.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10441,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10441