Darwin's children appropriate his manuscripts

Birds and flowers by one of Darwin's children
Drawing by one of Darwin's children, on the back of a manuscript page. Credit: Flashbak. Public domain.

Remarkable pictures of drawings made by some of Darwin’s children on the backs of discarded manuscript pages, presumably either drafts or material that had already been typeset, posted by the website Flashbak.

Flashbak describes itself as “a digital collection of thousands of wonderful pictures, stories, letters, sounds and movies from across the past, with one aim – to make the past come alive.” They also sell photographs and prints. They credit the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History, which in turn credits a collaboration with the Cambridge University Library.

Thanks to Burt Humburg for the link.