Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George Calderon c.1901
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
George Calderon, 1912
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Captain of the 11
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?Recent Comments
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Monthly Archives: July 2026
‘Library Notes’ (3)
Yes, I know… Both the title and uniform of this Soviet book are so forbidding that I am hardly surprised I never read it when I bought it (1986) and did not recognise it recently when cataloguing my Russian library … Continue reading
Posted in Modern parallels, Personal commentary
Tagged A.V. Lunacharskii, atheism, Bolshevik power, Communism, conversion of Rus', Dead Sea Scrolls, E.M. Iaroslavskii, G.M. Livshits, Iosif Amusin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Millenium of Christianity in Russia, N.K. Krupskaia, Qumran community, religions, religious cults, Russian Orthodox Church, scientific atheism, Sergei Bychkov, USSR, zhdanovshchina
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‘Library Notes’ (2)
This children’s book of 79 lines of poetry was stuck on its side behind the Brodsky section of my library (six books published between 1967 and 1993). I’d completely forgotten its existence — although it was clearly inscribed by me … Continue reading
Posted in Heroism and Adventure, Personal commentary, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, ballads, censorship, children's literature, comments, Constantine Cafavy, Edward Lear, fairytales, Joseph Brodsky, Kornei Chukovskii, Leningrad, Lewis Carroll, Metropol Hotel, nonsense poetry, nursery rhymes, The Little Tugboat, USSR, Viktor Tauber, Z. Arshakuni
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The diary of a writer-publisher: 40
1 July 2026 I attend an uncostumed run-through of the RSC Cherry Orchard (previews open in nine days time and the press night is 21st). Met at the stage door of the Swan by the company SM, who makes a … Continue reading →