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60 x 90 mm. Capt. A.G.C. Northcroft was HHB's Private Secretary.

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134 x 78 mm. A slightly blurred view looking across the flag-draped courtyard of Government House, showing Bell announcing the armistice to the crowd from the first floor verandah.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell in his aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell in his aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell's aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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205 x 150 mm. Showing the guard of honour drawn up in Place d'Armes to celebrate Bell's arrival as Governor. Photograph by Baretti.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the...

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80 x 110 mm. Group of four women by rock. HHB (?) on a higher level.

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78 x 136 mm. Showing Bell standing on the bank of a river, probably at Le Reduit.

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79 x 136 mm. Showing a group of Indian women walking along a riverbank, probably at Le Reduit.

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105 x 80 mm. Swimming group.

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140 x 90 mm. Group with HHB; it was the first such event held in Mauritius.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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74 x 99 mm. Showing Bell standing on the seashore holding an octopus on the end of a pole.

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200 x 122 mm. General view.

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180 x 122 mm. General view.

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255 x 80 mm. Three photographs joined to form a panorama.

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150 x 90 mm. General view.

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150 x 90 mm. General view.