Origin of Species with bonus pictures

December 13, 2017 3:01 AM

Darwin's young children sometimes painted pictures and wrote stories on the back of draft manuscripts for Darwin's books & notes. They are very sweet.
posted by Lezzles (4 comments total)

Thank you, these are just so sweet and funny!
posted by 15L06 at 12:36 PM on December 13, 2017

I've seen some of these before but not all of them so well scanned and presented. My favorite is definitely the Battle of Fruits and Vegetables, which goes on for a good seven pages.

Okay, now write a five page essay comparing and contrasting this piece with the Bayeux Tapestry and how both represent distinctly English points of view.
posted by Mizu at 1:46 PM on December 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

I think the drawings are delightful, and have brought them up in conversation multiple times.
posted by Harald74 at 11:53 PM on December 13, 2017

In Mizu's link it seems like the Darwin estate claims copyright on the scans and transcripts. Are they in the right there? The man died in 1882, FFS.
posted by Harald74 at 11:55 PM on December 13, 2017