Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

 Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36

Scope and Contents

Diaries, notebooks, letters, scrapbooks and publications. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.

Dates: 1889 - 1948

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

 File

Statue of the Virgin Mary, 1902

 File

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.7.01

Scope and Contents This porcelain statue bears the tag, ‘Found in ruins of St. Pierre, miraculously preserved 1902’. It was recovered from the ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique, in June 1902, by Sir Hesketh Bell, Administrator of Dominica, who visited immediately after the eruption of Mt. Pelée, ‘To our intense surprise, we found that this image was almost entirely undamaged, the hands and feet only having been broken off. This was a really an amazing thing, as it lay almost completely covered by big stones and...

Dates: 1902

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection

 File

Watercolour views of the Middle East, Far East and France, 1925-27, 1925 - 1927

 File

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011L

Scope and Contents

An album containing watercolour views of landscapes painted by Bell. The majority were painted during Bell's study tour of foreign colonial administration in the Far East 1925-26.

Dates: 1925 - 1927

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

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Subject

Europe (continent) 2

North and Central America (continent) 2

Africa (continent) 1

Antigua (island) 1

Asia (continent) 1

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Bahama Islands (island group) 1

Barbados (island) 1

Dominica (nation) 1

England (country) 1

Ghana (nation) 1

Great Britain (island) 1

Leeward Islands (island group) 1

Martinique (dependant state) 1

Middle East (region (general)) 1

Nigeria (nation) 1

Saint Pierre (inhabited place) 1

Uganda (nation) 1

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