From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
3 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 98
Summary:
Has written to Torbitt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 99
Summary:
Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 100
Summary:
Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 [Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 101; DAR 177: 340
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
9 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 46
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
30 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 102
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
29 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C67–8
Summary:
Hooker is greatly overworked at Kew and is trying to get the Government to provide some help. CD hopes THF will take an interest in the matter and forwards a copy of JDH’s application for an assistant.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Farrer, T. H.
- Breton, Philip le1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Heywood, James1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Russell, John1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1