To James Torbitt 11 March [1880]1
From Mr. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.
When you answer my queries be so good as to state how much land has been used in cultivating the varieties.—2 I shd like to at least allude to this point. How many seedlings have you raised in any one year?
C. D.
March 11th.
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to James Torbitt, 10 March 1880.
Summary
Queries how much land has been used to cultivate potato varieties, and how many seedlings have been raised in any one year.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12530F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Torbitt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bonhams (dealers) (9 November 2016)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12530F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 28
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