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‘Spectator’

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Patrick Miles

SAVE IT FOR THE (AMERICAN) NATION! How British archives fail us Patrick Miles It was a biographer’s dream. For decades Russianists had searched in vain for the archive of George Calderon, top Edwardian Slavist and the man who brought Chekhov’s … Continue reading →

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    Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
    Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
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    George Calderon, 1912
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    George Calderon c.1901
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    A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
    Michel and Vera Fokine in "Scheherazade", 1914
    Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
    Percy Lubbock sketch by Adrian Graham
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    Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
    Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley, c. 1920
    Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
    Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
    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)
    Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
    Monarch Butterfly Madeira
    Monarch Butterfly Madeira
    Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
    Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
    Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
    Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
    Captain of the 11
    Captain of the 11
    Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
    Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
    Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
    Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
    K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
    K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
    George and Kittie Calderon 1905
    George and Kittie Calderon 1905
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