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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, T. H.
Date:
21 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 665
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
12 July 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24)
Summary:
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
18 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/25)
Summary:
Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 July [1877]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546)
Summary:
THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
27 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26)
Summary:
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
24 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/27)
Summary:
Thanks THF for the diary of worm activity at Abinger site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[16 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Summary:
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[28 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 87
Summary:
THF would do a good deal if he gets Agricultural Society to rear cross-fertilised seeds. Society excellent channel for distribution of fungus-proof variety [of potato]. If James Torbitt will carry on work another year, CD will offer him £100.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 88
Summary:
Describes James Torbitt’s plan for producing disease-resistant potato varieties. [Letter is an earlier version of 11406.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 2
Summary:
Concerns [James] Torbitt’s potato plants and the question of their trial by the Experimental Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society and a request to the Government for the needed expense. THF and CD to set a date for consultation with the botanist [William] Carruthers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 89
Summary:
Agricultural Society will not do potato experiments. Torbitt telegraphs that seeds to be sown tomorrow. Memorial with a few signatures might get grant from Government. Hooker believes plan the right one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[after 2 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 1b
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 92; Linnean Society of London (MS 489)
Summary:
If THF and James Caird [Enclosure Commissioner] approve of enclosed letter, CD will send it to Hooker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 93
Summary:
Has returned letter to Caird and dispatched corrected letter to Hooker [11406] [concerning potato experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 94
Summary:
Hooker approves of Torbitt’s plan [concerning potato experiments]. Torbitt, wine and spirit merchant in Belfast, highly respectable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
26 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 95
Summary:
James Caird does not think Torbitt’s success justifies application to Government. Torbitt has four acres planted with seedlings. Has sent back CD’s £100. Shall CD insist that he keep it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 96b
Summary:
Thanks THF and James Caird for their assistance. Will send back the £100 to Torbitt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/29)
Summary:
Has received Ledum with its captured flies.
"At present I care for nothing in this wide world except the biology of seedling plants."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/30)
Summary:
Doubts Ledum warrants investigation. Glands probably serve only to protect the flowers against crawling insects, which would not cross-fertilise them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
27 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 21
Summary:
Wishes to call on THF to discuss the situation with regard to Horace Darwin [who wishes to marry THF’s daughter, Emma Cecilia (Ida)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
