A very happy New Year to our subscribers, followers and visitors. May 2017 be a good year for you all. I doubt whether any of us will agree with George Calderon’s ‘brutal’ assertion in a letter to Katharine Ripley of 31 December 1898 (her late husband’s birthday) that ‘the New Year […] is only a new number at the top of the newspaper’!
2017 is, of course, an important year for the whole Calderon project, as I am determined come what may to see my biography published within the next twelve months.
I had thought to carry on blogging much as in 2016, but mainly about the whole process of finding the right publisher and getting the book to press. There would have been plenty to tell about that day by day, but I have now decided otherwise. I will blog approximately once a week, but it will be about a range of topics including publication. My reasons for this reduction are as follows:
1. I think it would be wise to imitate the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit negotiations and not show my hand to the world whilst playing… Moreover, finding a publisher is a full-time job and won’t leave so much time for blogging…
2. I’m inclined to think I don’t have anything more of interest to readers to say about George and Kittie…
3. It’s ‘all’ in the book and I owe it to potential buyers not to perpetrate ‘spoilers’…
4. But I already know that fresh themes and ideas about the Calderons constantly pop up, so I will post about them as and when. Not to mention about more-or-less-relevant topics. Guest posts are also, of course, invited.
5. We really cannot put any more photographs or documents from the Calderon Papers on the Web — we must leave some for future archival researchers!
6. After two and a half years of writing Calderonia (with, of course, others’ very gratefully acknowledged help), I fear I am tired and jaded. Not that I couldn’t be tempted to start a more general literary blog in two or three years time…
7. Calderonia is now pretty large by blog standards, I think, and I experience more and more heart-stopping moments when I lose contact with WordPress whilst writing or trying to save a draft. For someone with my blood pressure range this is a serious issue…
8. I have had enough of trollery. Interesting though this phenomenon of people ‘losing it’ on the Net is, I do not need their thousands of words of omniscience and abuse.
Vive Calderonia, then, it’s not dead yet!
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George Calderon c.1901
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Captain of the 11
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George Calderon, 1912
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Calderonia: the way forward
A very happy New Year to our subscribers, followers and visitors. May 2017 be a good year for you all. I doubt whether any of us will agree with George Calderon’s ‘brutal’ assertion in a letter to Katharine Ripley of 31 December 1898 (her late husband’s birthday) that ‘the New Year […] is only a new number at the top of the newspaper’!
2017 is, of course, an important year for the whole Calderon project, as I am determined come what may to see my biography published within the next twelve months.
I had thought to carry on blogging much as in 2016, but mainly about the whole process of finding the right publisher and getting the book to press. There would have been plenty to tell about that day by day, but I have now decided otherwise. I will blog approximately once a week, but it will be about a range of topics including publication. My reasons for this reduction are as follows:
1. I think it would be wise to imitate the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit negotiations and not show my hand to the world whilst playing… Moreover, finding a publisher is a full-time job and won’t leave so much time for blogging…
2. I’m inclined to think I don’t have anything more of interest to readers to say about George and Kittie…
3. It’s ‘all’ in the book and I owe it to potential buyers not to perpetrate ‘spoilers’…
4. But I already know that fresh themes and ideas about the Calderons constantly pop up, so I will post about them as and when. Not to mention about more-or-less-relevant topics. Guest posts are also, of course, invited.
5. We really cannot put any more photographs or documents from the Calderon Papers on the Web — we must leave some for future archival researchers!
6. After two and a half years of writing Calderonia (with, of course, others’ very gratefully acknowledged help), I fear I am tired and jaded. Not that I couldn’t be tempted to start a more general literary blog in two or three years time…
7. Calderonia is now pretty large by blog standards, I think, and I experience more and more heart-stopping moments when I lose contact with WordPress whilst writing or trying to save a draft. For someone with my blood pressure range this is a serious issue…
8. I have had enough of trollery. Interesting though this phenomenon of people ‘losing it’ on the Net is, I do not need their thousands of words of omniscience and abuse.
Vive Calderonia, then, it’s not dead yet!
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