…I hope this works. I ran across this set of Adventures of Robin Hood lobby cards on tumblr this morning and just had to share. They look hand-colored to me. Apologies if they have been posted before, I looked back through the library a bit but didn’t see them.
— Paula
Paula, we are pleased to have you as our newest Author on The Errol Flynn Blog!
— David DeWitt
We have a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT today on The Errol Flynn Blog! Two new Author accounts have been created to bring News and Information to our members and readers about exciting events taking place here in the US, and around the world in 2015 to honor Errol Flynn!
We Welcome Captain Blood Brotherhood!
We Welcome The Sea Hawk Society
— David DeWitt
We’re pleased to announce new Author Benjamin S. Johnson to The Errol Flynn Blog! Welcome, Ben! We look forward to your posts and comments!
— David DeWitt
We’re happy to announce New Author Alina Durand of France to The Errol Flynn Blog! Alina is busy with other things just now, but is happy to join us and we look forward to her presence on the blog!
— David DeWitt
I’m happy to announce our newest Author Delvan Irwin to The Errol Flynn Blog. Delvan, we look forward to your Posts and comments! Welcome aboard …
— David DeWitt
May, we look forward to your posts and comments.
— Inga
I am happy to announce new Author David Trioux to The Errol Flynn Blog! David, we look forward to having you here with us!
— David DeWitt
When Errol moved to Salamaua, Papua New Guinea, he “plunged” himself into reading great works of literature – through “Russian novelists, Greek philosophers, French writers” he nightly “skipped, waded, muddled” and “sometimes swam well”, by the light of his hurricane lamps, fondling these books as if [he] were running his hands through a lovely woman’s hair”. “An inner need for learning sprang up in [him]” “to connect with the ideas of the world” – a need that proved pivotal in his life. This was where and how Errol found gold in New Guinea, as he put it.
Here’s Errol’s own description of that transformative time & experience:
And here’s pre-WWII Salamaua, where Errol lived:
Errol’s Jungle Reading List included:
Aristotle
Honore de Balzac
George Baudelaire (Correction: that should obviously be Charles Baudelaire!)
Victor Hugo
Guy de Maupassant
Plato
Edmond Rostand – Errol particularly liked the “beauty of style” of Rostand, who he read with the help of a French dictionary, and said had the “greatest influence upon [him]”. He specifically cited L’Aiglon, the story of Napoleon II. I imagine he also read Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Here’s some images of the books as Errol may have seen them:
Robert Louis Stevenson
H. G. Wells
Here are some 1930 images of The Outline of History, as Errol may have seen it:
— Tim
