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 12 March 1880
Summary
Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12533 |
From T. H. Farrer 6 October 1880
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12739 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1880
Summary
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12748 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 16 October 1880
Summary
Notes and replies to queries on worm-castings and worm activity on a rubble-covered road.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 63: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12762 |
From T. H. Farrer 27 August 1881
Summary
On William Graham’s book [The creed of science (1881)].
Darwinism, chance, and the existence of evil.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13298 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 November 1881
Summary
Has received Earthworms.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13461 |
From T. H. Farrer 13 January 1882
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.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13617 |
From Thomas Henry Farrer 17 May 1868
Summary
Raises a question about a statement in Orchids; his observations differ.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 14/2; DAR 164: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6178 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 May 1868
Summary
Is confirmed about the bending of the fly orchid pollinia. [See "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 141.]
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6183 |
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 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 17 September 1868
Summary
Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.
Asks advice on books.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6373 |
From T. H. Farrer 20 September 1868
Summary
Sends an addition to Lobelia paper; admires adaptations for fertilisation.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6381 |
From T. H. Farrer 24 September 1868
Summary
Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6391 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868
Summary
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6432 |
From T. H. Farrer 2 November 1868
Summary
The conversion of Asa Gray must be a pleasure.
CD’s doctrine accounts for and gives a vera causa of structures.
Discusses F. Hildebrand’s book.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6445 |
From T. H. Farrer 21 November 1868
Summary
Thinks CD’s views of insect agency and crossing might explain structure and variations of papilionaceous flowers. Lists five points. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 49; Linnean Society of London, MS Case 6B, No. 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6470 |
From T. H. Farrer 30 November 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6485 |
