I only wash my feet once a month at school, which I confess is nasty

Young Darwin lets of some steam

The earliest known picture of Charles Darwin — a chalk drawing from 1816, by Ellen Sharples.

On this day in 1822, 37 years before publication of On the Origin of Species, a groundbreaking book that would forever change our perception of the world, its author, Charles ‘Father of Evolution’ Darwin, wrote to an unidentified friend and let off some steam. Th…