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From James Torbitt   [after 18 October 1878]1

Sent to Counter-balance Mr Kennedy’s unfavourable report.2

I am busy examining varieties of 1875, tuber by tuber, and hope to report in a few days

most respectfully | J. Torbitt

[Enclosure]

Lismoyne, | Dunmurry, | Co. Antrim.

18 October 1878

Sir,

I will be obliged if you can give me one puncheon & one cut in two halves similar to the one I have already got from you, of course I mean all to be second hand.3

I am still persevering with the potatoes grown from the seed, the crop has been always large & free from disease4 & each year the shape is better, I of course reject all unshapely ones when planting in Spring.

Yours very truly | Geo Callwell

1
The date is established by the date of the enclosure.
2
See enclosure to letter from James Torbitt, 8 October 1878. Victor Coates Kennedy had reported little success in growing Torbitt’s potato seedlings.
3
Torbitt was a wine merchant; a puncheon was a large barrel or cask for storing wine (OED). Torbitt deleted this paragraph.
4
Torbitt’s underlining.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11724,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11724