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 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 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 5 March 1880
Summary
[Letter written as a postscript to 11406.] CD has reread his letter of 7 Mar 1878 about the value of James Torbitt’s work on the potato disease and has nothing to withdraw. Emphasises Torbitt’s need for immediate financial help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 5 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (MS 489) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12512 |
To T. H. Farrer 7 [March 1880]
Summary
Describes subscription for Torbitt [to continue potato experiments]. Would dislike writing to any paper, but Hensleigh [Wedgwood] and Erasmus [Darwin] advise CD to write to the Times.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 7 [Mar 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 101; DAR 177: 340 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12523 |
To T. H. Farrer 9 March 1880
Summary
Thanks THF for his contribution; now has £170 to permit Torbitt to carry on his experiments. Describes the scale of the experiments and his belief in their value.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 9 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12528 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
To T. H. Farrer 8 October 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 8 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12743 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 October [1880]
Summary
Thanks THF for notes on Abinger excavation. Asks for more castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12749 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October 1880
Summary
THF’s copybook has cleared up all points. The castings are invaluable. Encloses further queries [missing].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12755 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1880]
Summary
Is worried about brick particles in worm-castings. Asks THF for castings from a site where possible error would be avoided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12756 |
To T. H. Farrer 20 October 1880
Summary
Has started experiment to see whether particles of stone become rounded in the gizzards of worms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 20 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12766 |
To T. H. Farrer 30 December 1880
Summary
Statement of money transactions with James Torbitt and record of year’s success enclosed. Torbitt desires him to return £90. He is doubtful of being able to continue this spring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 30 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12956 |
To T. H. Farrer 18 January 1881
Summary
Asks THF to obtain sample of chalk immediately below vegetable mould at Abinger.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 18 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13016 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 August 1881
Summary
More on W. Graham’s book, The creed of science. Chance and design. Happiness.
E. A. Darwin’s death [26 Aug 1881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/33) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13299 |
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 19 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks THF for correcting the error in Orchids.
Asks him to find out what insects visit the fly orchid and for what purpose.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 19 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6185 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 June 1868
Summary
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 5 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6230 |
To T. H. Farrer 15 September [1868]
Summary
Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 15 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6365 |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Calvert, Harry | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
Head, E. W. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Heywood, James | (1) |
Horsman, Edward | (1) |
Kay, Joseph | (1) |
King, P. J. L. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Percival, E. F. | (1) |
Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
Powell, Baden | (1) |
Price, Bonamy | (1) |
Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
Senior, N. W. | (1) |
Verney, Harry | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (62) |
Russell, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
Farrer, T. H. | |
Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Calvert, Harry | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
Head, E. W. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Heywood, James | (1) |
Horsman, Edward | (1) |
Kay, Joseph | (1) |
King, P. J. L. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Percival, E. F. | (1) |
Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
Powell, Baden | (1) |
Price, Bonamy | (1) |
Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
Russell, John | (1) |
Senior, N. W. | (1) |
Verney, Harry | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |