She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure
So if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells
Mary Anning has become to fossils what bacon is to eggs... so notorious that she has even inspired the classic tongue twister written above.
Not everyone thought so as this letter displayed in the Philpott shows. It was sent from the British Museum in 1935 rejecting the offer of her 'commonplace' book (a miscellanea of personal writings) with the words -
'They are just the sort of extracts and jottings which a young lady of the period might be expected to make but have no lasting value'
Could this be the man who also turned down the Beatles?...
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