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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hensleigh Wedgwood and Erasmus Alvey Darwin . See letter to James Torbitt, 6 March [1880] . See second letter from James Torbitt, 5 March 1880 . CD is probably referring to the enclosure to his letter to Farrer of 7 March 1878 ( Correspondence vol. 26), which went through several drafts. See letter to T. H. …
To James Caird 24 March 1880
Summary
Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Caird |
Date: | 24 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12546 |
To James Torbitt [5] January 1881
Summary
T. H. Farrer and James Caird express great interest in JT’s report. Have instructed CD to hold £90 for use by JT in spring. Caird asks that potatoes be sent to his gardener for trials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | [5] Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12966 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Farrer forwarded the documents to James Caird . Farrer and Caird had contributed to a subscription to support Torbitt’s work (see ibid . , letter to James Torbitt, 6 March 1880 ). Hensleigh Wedgwood had originally agreed to subscribe £10 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to James Torbitt, 6 March [1880] ). See letter from T. H. …
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
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.
Author: | 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 |
Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
Date: | [10 July 1848] |
Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
letter | (4) |
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) |
Caird, James | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Russell, John | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Caird, James | (1) |
Calvert, Harry | (1) |