To T. H. Farrer 7 March 1878
Summary
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 7 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London: Farrer, T. H. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11406 |
To T. H. Farrer 11 March 1878
Summary
Has returned letter to Caird and dispatched corrected letter to Hooker [11406] [concerning potato experiments].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 11 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11412 |
To T. H. Farrer 31 March 1878
Summary
Thanks THF and James Caird for their assistance. Will send back the £100 to Torbitt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 31 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 96b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11457 |
To T. H. Farrer 3 November 1879
Summary
Has written to Torbitt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 3 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12288 |
To T. H. Farrer 17 November 1879
Summary
Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 17 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12325 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 January 1882
Summary
Requests that THF forward an enclosure if he thinks it proper. James Torbitt’s blunder in using the pollen of a diseased variety accounts for the bad varieties raised last year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | Surrey History Centre (T. H. Farrer papers 9609/4/1/16 (part) by permission of Emma Corke) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13608A |
To T. H. Farrer [after 2 March 1878]
Summary
Forwards letter from James Caird concerning funds for potato experiments. CD will correct his letter to THF [11389] and then forward it to Hooker for his opinion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [after 2 Mar 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11401 |
To T. H. Farrer 14 February 1880
Summary
Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 14 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12479 |
To T. H. Farrer 8 May [1878]
Summary
Doubts Ledum warrants investigation. Glands probably serve only to protect the flowers against crawling insects, which would not cross-fertilise them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 8 May [1878] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11496 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October 1879
Summary
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256A |
To T. H. Farrer 23 October 1879
Summary
Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268 |
To T. H. Farrer [27 November 1869]
Summary
Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".
[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [27 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7013 |
To T. H. Farrer [29 June 1870]
Summary
Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [29 June 1870] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7250 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 April 1873
Summary
Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 28 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8885 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 December [1873]
Summary
Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 1 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9166 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 April 1874
Summary
Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9400 |
To T. H. Farrer 12 July 1875
Summary
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 12 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10060 |
To T. H. Farrer 18 January [1874]
Summary
Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362 |
To T. H. Farrer 27 August [1877]
Summary
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 27 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11114 |
To T. H. Farrer 24 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks THF for the diary of worm activity at Abinger site.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 24 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11151 |