Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
George Calderon c.1901
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George Calderon, 1912
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
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?
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Captain of the 11
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920Recent Comments
- Patrick Miles on The diary of a writer-publisher: 36 Wonderful, Andrew! Thank you very much. I will borrow that title, if you don't object... I hope you will allow Calderonia to feature your own next magnum opus after the Great... (February 28, 2026 at 8:18 am)
- Andrew Tatham on The diary of a writer-publisher: 36 A brilliantly evocative and thought-provoking medley of observations that would not be out of place in 'The collected life of a flat-cap penguin' (your words, only slightly... (February 27, 2026 at 9:48 am)
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Goathead: The Complete Sonnets
As promised in our previous post, here is a facsimile of the first, only, and definitive edition of all the sonnets of Samuel Goathead, published ‘by CUP’ in 1975: © Patrick Miles, 1975 ADVERTISEMENT SOME RESPONSES TO GEORGE CALDERON: EDWARDIAN … Continue reading
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Announcing: THE GOATHEAD PRESS
On 16 June this year the website www.samandsam.co.uk, which had existed since 2018, disappeared from the Web. Here is a reminder of what the splash page looked like: I refused to waste much time over who had perpetrated this, because … Continue reading →