From Thomas Henry Farrer 15 January 1869
3 Gloucester Terrace | R.P
15. Jan/69
My dear Mr Darwin
You always contrive to send something pleasant. It comes alas! in the midst of much Red Tape which leaves no time for Botany.1 New Ministers laudably attempting economies—many of them, I fear, impossible, give much trouble: almost as much, though more satisfactorily, as expensive & jobbing Ministers.2
Would Mrs Darwin or Miss D. kindly give me one line to say whether I shall send the beautiful French Book your son so kindly lent me back to Cambridge I heard with much regret that an accident had kept him there.3
Believe me | Most truly yours | T H Farrer
C Darwin Esq FRS
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6556
- From
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Gloucester Terrace, 3
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 51
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6556,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6556.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
