From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 97
Summary:
Suggests Torbitt make a report on his progress so far.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 2; DAR 164: 98
Summary:
Encloses note and cheque from James Caird [for Torbitt].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 99
Summary:
Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 3
Summary:
Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 100
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 101
Summary:
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 102
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions about worms at Abinger ruins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 63: 42
Summary:
Notes and replies to queries on worm-castings and worm activity on a rubble-covered road.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 96
Summary:
Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.
Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 164: 103
Summary:
On William Graham’s book [The creed of science (1881)].
Darwinism, chance, and the existence of evil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 164: 104
Summary:
Has received Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 105
Summary:
Potatoes [from Torbitt experiment] sent him for eating were very poor. Those for seed produced abundantly, but have not resisted disease better than other kinds that Payne [his gardener] has grown.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
