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Showing fish in a pool coming to be fed.

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110 x 85 mm.

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110 x 85 mm.

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Pencil sketch.

Scope and Contents Collection of photographs in a padded black album 285 x 370 mm, illustrating forestry work in Mauritius during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including views of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Pamplemousses. A title page is inscribed 'Colony of Mauritius, Forests and Gardens Department, December 1907.' All photographs are captioned in detail in a copperplate hand. However, pages 47-52 have been removed. There is an index on page 72, from which it appears that page 47...

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65 x 110 mm. Showing a dog beside a fountain.

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90 x 65 mm.

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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60 x 88 mm. Showing flower bed with blooms.

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149 x 46 mm. Two prints joined to form a panoramic view of the lawns and gardens at Le Reduit.

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80 x 53 mm. View looking along a tree-shaded path.

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215 x 165 mm. General view of the pergola built in the garden at Le Reduit by Bell.

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This file contains notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and journal articles collected by Bell during his research into Charles George Gordon’s service in Mauritius. It includes copies of two letters by Gordon dated 1883 and copies of two reports that Gordon submitted in 1881 on the suppression of the East African slave trade and colonial defence. Some material was later added by RCS Librarian Donald Simpson (circa 150 sheets).

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A collection of loose prints approximately measuring 190 x 240 mm, with typescript captions on the reverse.

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226 x 101 mm. A view of the two wings of Government House, Port Louis, from the Place D'Armes. The groundfloor was first laid out by Mahe de Labourdonnais in 1738 and the present building dates from 1771. Facing the square is an undistinguished statue of Queen Victoria erected in 1902 and, largely obscured in the court yard behind, the statue of Sir William Stevenson (Governor of Mauritius 1857-63), erected in 1867.

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77 x 102 mm. A view looking down on the river, with two sailing boats moored in the foreground.

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69 x 92 mm. Headstone in the form of a Celtic cross over the grave of Sir William Stevenson (1805-1863), Governor of Mauritius 1857-1863. The caption wrongly gives Stevenson's initial as 'J'.

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101 x 77 mm. Showing Bell seated with a group of Europeans in front of a tent at Blue Bay, situated on the SE part of the island near Pointe d'Esny.

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133 x 71 mm. Showing a tennis party grouped on the lawn at Le Reduit.

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105 x 80 mm.

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80 x 103 mm. Showing a group sitting under a tree, possibly at Le Reduit.

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85 x 110 mm.

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110 x 80 mm.

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73 x 98 mm. Showing Bell standing in the centre of an unidentified group of two men and four women.

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120 x 90 mm. An oval picture.