The next post, which will appear on Monday 15 August, will be by Mr John Pym, son of Jack Pym (1908-93) who featured as a child in my very first post of 30 July 1914 (30 July 2014) and was the eldest son of Sir Charles Evelyn Pym (1879-1971) and Violet Pym (1881-1927), née Lubbock. Violet and ‘Evey’ lived at Foxwold, Brasted Chart, Kent, and were close friends of George and Kittie Calderon, as Violet was a niece of Kittie’s through Kittie’s first marriage to Archie Ripley.
John Pym is familiar to followers of this blog from his numerous contributions of fact and photographs, his Comments, and above all his poem to George’s memory posted on 2 July 2015. I feel sure that his guest post now, which is based on family archives, will be found not only delightful but suggestive, as it touches on the important subject of what the Victorians and Edwardians understood by ‘fun’. I was particularly pleased to receive it, because George’s conception of ‘fun’ is something I have to address in my Afterword. My profuse thanks to Mr Pym for offering me this post and taking such pains over it.
I would like to feature a guest post on ‘Calderonia’ once a month. If you feel there is something you would like to say that is in any way related to the issues addressed on the blogsite over the past two years, do contact me through my website www.patrickmileswriter.co.uk . The preferred length is about 1000 words and all you will need to do is email me the text and images as attachments.
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Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
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)
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Captain of the 11
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
George Calderon c.1901
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
George Calderon, 1912
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Guest posts on ‘Calderonia’
The next post, which will appear on Monday 15 August, will be by Mr John Pym, son of Jack Pym (1908-93) who featured as a child in my very first post of 30 July 1914 (30 July 2014) and was the eldest son of Sir Charles Evelyn Pym (1879-1971) and Violet Pym (1881-1927), née Lubbock. Violet and ‘Evey’ lived at Foxwold, Brasted Chart, Kent, and were close friends of George and Kittie Calderon, as Violet was a niece of Kittie’s through Kittie’s first marriage to Archie Ripley.
John Pym is familiar to followers of this blog from his numerous contributions of fact and photographs, his Comments, and above all his poem to George’s memory posted on 2 July 2015. I feel sure that his guest post now, which is based on family archives, will be found not only delightful but suggestive, as it touches on the important subject of what the Victorians and Edwardians understood by ‘fun’. I was particularly pleased to receive it, because George’s conception of ‘fun’ is something I have to address in my Afterword. My profuse thanks to Mr Pym for offering me this post and taking such pains over it.
I would like to feature a guest post on ‘Calderonia’ once a month. If you feel there is something you would like to say that is in any way related to the issues addressed on the blogsite over the past two years, do contact me through my website www.patrickmileswriter.co.uk . The preferred length is about 1000 words and all you will need to do is email me the text and images as attachments.
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