From T. H. Farrer 12 August [1873]
Summary
Further observations concerning the fertilisation of Coronilla by bees.
Reflections concerning the influence of cultivation (i.e., ploughing) upon variation.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 76a–76b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005A |
From T. H. Farrer 18 September 1869
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6898 |
From Thomas Henry Farrer 17 May 1868
Summary
Raises a question about a statement in Orchids; his observations differ.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 14/2; DAR 164: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6178 |
From T. H. Farrer 10 September 1868
Summary
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6361 |
From T. H. Farrer 21 November 1868
Summary
Thinks CD’s views of insect agency and crossing might explain structure and variations of papilionaceous flowers. Lists five points. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 49; Linnean Society of London, MS Case 6B, No. 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6470 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1869
Summary
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6929 |
From T. H. Farrer 13 October 1869
Summary
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6935 |
From T. H. Farrer 6 October 1880
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12739 |
From T. H. Farrer 17 September 1868
Summary
Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.
Asks advice on books.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6373 |
From T. H. Farrer 23 September 1877
Summary
Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 50–1, DAR 164: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11150 |
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 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 |
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