16/8/15. If you haven’t seen the latest cracker of a Comment from Clare Hopkins, I recommend that you do (top right)…and contribute to the discussion!
I have been away for a week. This necessitated carting the manuscript with me and a memory stick with the entire typescript on. At this stage in completing a book you are so paranoid about losing everything you’ve written that you don’t want to leave all your copies in one place behind you. Needless to say, I didn’t write anything.
But I did think a lot about ‘epilogues’ in modern writing and carry on wondering about the form of the next chapter, which is brief and covers the aftermath of George’s death 1915-22. Before leaving Cambridge, I was reading ‘in depth’ all of Kittie’s correspondence after 4 June 1915, and got as far as 1920. It became far clearer how Kittie set everything aside, including her health and George’s probate (much to her solicitor’s and the War 0ffice’s
annoyance), to produce Tahiti and Percy Lubbock’s book about George for publication in 1921. This has given me a completely new form — a narrative always permeated by Kittie’s ascertainable state of health and mind— for this chapter from the one I had before, and I shall probably start writing it this week.
Approaches will be made to another six carefully researched publishers this week, making twenty-six out of a total of forty-seven possibles. All the time, I have a dull feeling about who the most likely publishers (three) really are, but you have to tackle the ones you would ideally like; you would never forgive yourself if you didn’t. The existence and availability of Calderonia undoubtedly help my case.
As always, I will end by saying that if you have any ideas about plausible publishers of George Calderon: Edwardian Genius, please email them me through my website http://patrickmiles.co.uk. Thank you for reading!
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Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
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Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
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A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George Calderon c.1901
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
George Calderon, 1912
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16/8/15. If you haven’t seen the latest cracker of a Comment from Clare Hopkins, I recommend that you do (top right)…and contribute to the discussion!
I have been away for a week. This necessitated carting the manuscript with me and a memory stick with the entire typescript on. At this stage in completing a book you are so paranoid about losing everything you’ve written that you don’t want to leave all your copies in one place behind you. Needless to say, I didn’t write anything.
But I did think a lot about ‘epilogues’ in modern writing and carry on wondering about the form of the next chapter, which is brief and covers the aftermath of George’s death 1915-22. Before leaving Cambridge, I was reading ‘in depth’ all of Kittie’s correspondence after 4 June 1915, and got as far as 1920. It became far clearer how Kittie set everything aside, including her health and George’s probate (much to her solicitor’s and the War 0ffice’s
annoyance), to produce Tahiti and Percy Lubbock’s book about George for publication in 1921. This has given me a completely new form — a narrative always permeated by Kittie’s ascertainable state of health and mind— for this chapter from the one I had before, and I shall probably start writing it this week.
Approaches will be made to another six carefully researched publishers this week, making twenty-six out of a total of forty-seven possibles. All the time, I have a dull feeling about who the most likely publishers (three) really are, but you have to tackle the ones you would ideally like; you would never forgive yourself if you didn’t. The existence and availability of Calderonia undoubtedly help my case.
As always, I will end by saying that if you have any ideas about plausible publishers of George Calderon: Edwardian Genius, please email them me through my website http://patrickmiles.co.uk. Thank you for reading!
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