To T. H. Farrer 27 June [1879]
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)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 27 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12125 |
To T. H. Farrer [27 November 1869]
Summary
Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".
[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1869] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7013 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October 1879
Summary
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256A |
To T. H. Farrer 12 July 1875
Summary
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 12 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10060 |
To T. H. Farrer 8 October 1880
Summary
Questions the exact location of rooms and trenches at Abinger excavation [for Earthworms].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12743 |
To T. H. Farrer 31 October 1879
Summary
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12280 |
To T. H. Farrer 4 July [1874]
Summary
Has read THF’s article on Coronilla [see 9400] – "a very curious case"; is troubled by C. emerus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 4 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9531 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 June 1868
Summary
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 5 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6230 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 January 1882
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Surrey History Centre (T. H. Farrer papers 9609/4/1/16 (part) by permission of Emma Corke) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13608A |
To T. H. Farrer 29 November [1874]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C67–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9737 |
From T. H. Farrer 4 June 1868
Summary
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6229 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 October 1879
Summary
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12253 |
From Thomas Henry Farrer 15 January 1869
Summary
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6556 |
From T. H. Farrer 8 March 1880
Summary
Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12527 |
From T. H. Farrer 30 October 1879
Summary
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12279 |
From T. H. Farrer 16 June 1872
Summary
Asks CD for seeds of some plants.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8390 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … cultivated Myosotis in Variation 2: 128. Emma Darwin’s sister, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , …
- … Farrer’ s daughter, Emma Cecilia Farrer (Ida), married Horace Darwin in 1880 (Wedgwood and …
- … Darwins in Down; Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood was one of their nieces. Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood (Effie), Hope Wedgwood’s sister, was noted for her singing; in the summer of 1872 their parents, Hensleigh and Frances Emma …
From T. H. Farrer 15 December 1870
Summary
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7391 |
From T. H. Farrer 10 September 1868
Summary
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6361 |
From T. H. Farrer 10 October 1880
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions about worms at Abinger ruins.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12751 |
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