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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
5 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (MS 489)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
1 Oct 1880
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34)
Summary:

Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
8 Oct 1880
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38
Summary:

Questions the exact location of rooms and trenches at Abinger excavation [for Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Oct [1880]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/36)
Summary:

Thanks THF for notes on Abinger excavation. Asks for more castings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct 1880
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/37)
Summary:

THF’s copybook has cleared up all points. The castings are invaluable. Encloses further queries [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct [1880]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/38)
Summary:

Is worried about brick particles in worm-castings. Asks THF for castings from a site where possible error would be avoided.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
20 Oct 1880
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/31)
Summary:

Has started experiment to see whether particles of stone become rounded in the gizzards of worms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
18 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/32)
Summary:

Asks THF to obtain sample of chalk immediately below vegetable mould at Abinger.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/33)
Summary:

More on W. Graham’s book, The creed of science. Chance and design. Happiness.

E. A. Darwin’s death [26 Aug 1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Surrey History Centre (T. H. Farrer papers 9609/4/1/16 (part) by permission of Emma Corke)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project