Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon c.1901
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George Calderon, 1912
Captain of the 11
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
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A new story by John Melmoth: ‘Snowballs’
‘Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy.’—Andy Goldsworthy The moment the snowball left Anton’s hand he knew exactly what was about to happen. He didn’t understand physics well enough to know how he knew, but the fact … Continue reading →
The diary of a writer-publisher: 36
12 January 2026 I don’t know why I have always had ridiculously sensitive hearing (my ears have been described as ‘tiny’ and ‘porcelain’), but at seventy-seven I still have. A year or two ago I was walking to get the … Continue reading →
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