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

Telegram

Date stamp: MR 3 80

1
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.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12507,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12507