9 June 2002
Draft
CHARLES WATERTON
Sally Shelton:
He abhorred scientific nomenclature, John James Audubon (whom he called a charlatan), Protestants, Hanoverians, Hanoverian Protestants, rats (the presence of which in England he blamed on the Hanoverian Protestants), and, late in life, Charles Darwin; he loved the natural world, birds, taxidermy, and practical jokes.
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Taxidermic caricature of Martin Luther
The Nondescript
John Bull and the National Debt
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