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 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August [1873]
Summary
Further observations concerning the fertilisation of Coronilla by bees.
Reflections concerning the influence of cultivation (i.e., ploughing) upon variation.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 76a–76b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005A |
Farrer, T. H. (1819–99)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Farrer of Abinger, 1893. ODNB Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. …
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 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Farrer had borrowed, among other books, CD’s copy of Christian Konrad Sprengel’s Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen (The secret of nature discovered in the structure and fertilisation of flowers; Sprengel 1793 ); see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from T. H. Farrer, 13 October 1869 . Farrer’s country residence was Abinger Hall near Dorking. One Cumberland Place, London, was the home of Hensleigh Wedgwood , …
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. …
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| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
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| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Caird, James | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Torbitt, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (5) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Caird, James | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
