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 5 May 1869
Summary
Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: A79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6727 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 May 1869
Summary
Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6739 |
From T. H. Farrer 8 August 1869
Summary
Speculates on the function of the separate stamen of papilionaceous flowers.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6857 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August 1869
Summary
Will work on papilionaceous flowers since CD encourages it. Discusses function of hairs in certain plants.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6861 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 September 1869
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6898 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1869
Summary
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6929 |
From T. H. Farrer 13 October 1869
Summary
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6935 |
From T. H. Farrer 17 October 1869
Summary
Sends notes on observations of Passiflora and Tacsonia; Hooker thinks they would be worth reading at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6941 |
From T. H. Farrer 27 October 1869
Summary
Observations on Passiflora.
Hildebrand on geraniums.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6958 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 November 1869
Summary
Sends a "guess" about Mimosa leaf structure as an answer to one of CD’s questions.
Has found a Passiflora princeps.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6973 |
From T. H. Farrer 28 November 1869
Summary
Agrees that it is wise to delay [publishing?] on Passiflora.
Puts queries he wants CD to send [to Fritz Müller] on bees visiting flowers in winter.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7015 |
From T. H. Farrer 17 May 1870
Summary
On death of his wife. Botany a solace.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7192 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 May 1870
Summary
Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.
Observations on insects visiting barberries.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7202 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 June 1870
Summary
Has sent F. Müller "a long screed" about the Passiflora.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7219 |
From T. H. Farrer 29 June 1870
Summary
Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7254 |
From T. H. Farrer 27 October 1870
Summary
Returning CD’s books.
Sympathises with women’s lot in life.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7351 |
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 1 March 1871
Summary
Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7528 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 March 1871
Summary
On private property, with regard to tools and arms; comments on Maine’s book and the history of law regarding property.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 165–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7541 |
