Scope and Content Note
This text is a photocopy of a typescript draft with photocopied holograph notes, the original of which can be found in Folders
4 and 5. A note reads “Pucciani’s Text.” This appears to be Pucciani’s copy of GHH’s memoirs, which he planned to publish,
possibly with the help of Pucciani. Pucciani may have played a role in the organization of materials and may have made annotations.
This draft is a photocopy of the draft contained in folders 4 and 5, with the exception that beginning of the draft differs.
In this folder, multiple versions and possibly orderings precede the rest of the text, which is approximately 200 pages long.
The narrative touches on his relationship with his parents and his experiences growing up in Russia. It gives a full account
of his time serving in the British Army fighting in the Russian Revolution and recovering in austere British hospitals. It
gives an account of his professional life and his artistic philosophy. The narrative is rich with name-dropping and anecdotes
of his encounters with celebrities, intelligentsia and other famous people through his social life as an aristocrat and through
his artistic work. These people include Barbette, Georges Gurdjieff (Gurgiev), Cecil B. DeMille, Katherine Hepburn, Charlie
Chaplin, Isadora Duncan, Cecile Sorel, Sergei Eisenstein, Salvador Dali, Joseph Pilates, Greta Garbo, George Cukor, Marilyn
Monroe, Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Princess Frederica of Hanover (Queen Frederika of Greece). Preceding the main draft
are photocopies of correspondence (the originals of which can be found in Folder 10) between Ewing and Pucciani regarding
Pucciani’s contributions to Ewing’s book. Also inserted within the draft is a stapled packet of typed excerpts from GHH’s
memoirs that appears to be typed on a word processor.
