To T. H. Farrer 21 June [1871]
Summary
Confesses to intense hatred of the bee [orchid] for its anomalous perpetual self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 21 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Cullum M411) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7828 |
To T. H. Farrer 2 [March 1871]
Summary
Was aware of Maine’s view but never thought of its extension to morals. Cannot avoid thinking that personal property like flint tools must have "strictly belonged to individuals as much as a bone to a dog".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 2 [Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7530 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 November [1874]
Summary
CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.
With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9735 |
To T. H. Farrer 31 October 1879
Summary
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12280 |
To Horace Darwin [28 June 1879]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a statement of CD’s finances and estimate of the inheritance his children may expect] for HD and Ida to read; CD very pleased to be able to leave his children comfortably provided for.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | [28 June 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 5, 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12384 |
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- … H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 and n. 1). CD also intended to send the enclosure to his daughter Henrietta Emma Litchfield , and son William Erasmus Darwin . The enclosure is in Emma Darwin’s hand. William’s estimate of CD and Emma Darwin’s property was probably carried out in the context of the forthcoming marriage of his sister, Henrietta, which took place in August 1871 ( …
| letter | (5) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
