Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon c.1901
George Calderon, 1912
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Captain of the 11
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.Recent Comments
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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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Ukrainian literature is flourishing, even or especially as the war rages. Perhaps this will not surprise you, as whenever we see and hear Ukrainians on our televisions they are lively, articulate, cultured, witty, open to the world and dialogue, which … Continue reading →