Darwin’s Children Drew Pictures on theOrigin of Speciesmanuscript

Charles Darwin was n’t just a writer and a naturalist ; he was also the father of ten children . And when those children got a hold of his manuscript for On the Origin of Species , the did what kids do : they drew all over them .

TheCambridge University Libraryhas many of Darwin ’s papers , include Page from On the Origin of Species that his children used as scrap paper . Darwin himself often used the back side of the paper on his holograph for notes , in effect destruct his own holograph , and let his children draw on the back side of his papers as well . He kept a tidy sum of papers in the closet under his stairs for his tiddler to seize as they desire , and at one point , he patently kept Thomas Nelson Page from his most illustrious manuscript there . The Darwin Manuscripts Project has made Darwin ’s endure papers available online , include those containing his children ’s works of art .

Darwin was himself a skilled artist , using his skills in his observations of various species of industrial plant and beast , andif the top image is any reading , it seems that at least one of his children picked up his interest in illustrating the rude world .

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On the other mitt , some of their draft were more fanciful , like this one , peradventure attract by Francis Darwin ( who would succeed in his founder ’s naturalist footstep ) , which the Darwin Manuscripts Project has logged as the“Aubergine and Carrot Cavalry ” :

At least one of these lottery captured something from Darwin ’s own lifespan . Atthe Appendix , Benjamin Breen points to a drawing one of the children did of the Darwins ’ home , which appears to include the sandwalk Darwin like to tread as he thought . Now , though , the drawings are immortalise not for what they draw , but for what they were draw upon .

Darwin ’s youngster Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript[The Appendix viaMetaFilter ]

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