97 x 72 mm. Showing Bell and his dog seated on rocks on the seashore. Exact location unidentified.

131 x 80 mm. View looking along a river towards mountains.

140 x 90 mm. At Le Reduit, 12 July 1923.

194 x 134 mm. A view looking across the Port Louis racecourse towards the grandstand, with spectators, carriages and motor vehicles in the foreground. The first races held in Mauritius took place at the Champ de Mars, situated at the NE edge of the city, in 1812. Photograph by (?William) Baretti.

A collection of coloured 'oilette' postcards of Mauritius, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons for the British Empire Exhibition 1924.

98 x 72 mm. View looking across the lawn towards the rear façade of Le Reduit, with Bell and two Naval officers (one of them probably Myers) standing in the foreground.

220 x 154 mm. Showing the drive and main entrance to Le Reduit, with a motor car parked in front of the verandah.

209 x 135 mm. View of the Governor's house at Le Reduit from the lawn.

81 x 81 mm. View of the rear façade of the house from the lawn.

125 x 71 mm. View of the rear of the house from the lawn.

96 x 71 mm. View of the front of the house from the drive.

131 x 78 mm. View of the side of the house from the garden.

54 x 77 mm. View of one of the wings of Le Reduit from the garden.

79 x 58 mm. View looking along a path in the gardens, with part of the house at the left.

210 x 159 mm. View of the drive and front entrance to Le Reduit, with motor car parked at left.

110 x 85 mm. View of a corner of the house.

133 x 79 mm. Showing Bell on horseback in front of one of the wings of Le Reduit.

99 x 72 mm. View of the courtyard and entrance façade of Le Reduit situated six miles outside Port Louis on the way to Curepipe. First built in 1748 as an alternative residence for the governor, the house was rebuilt in 1778 and in 1868 when the top section was destroyed in a cyclone.

110 x 80 mm. Showing flower beds and pond.

110 x 80 mm. Showing flower beds and pond.

100 x 76 mm. View looking across the lawn towards the rear façade of Le Reduit, with Bell standing on the grass.

A scrapbook album containing prints of various sizes by various photographers. The majority of the prints are captioned in Bell's hand. They relate to his period as Governor of the Leeward Islands, which ended in 1915; visits to England and South Africa; and, from plate 33 onwards, his Governorship of Mauritius, to which he was appointed in 1915.

These letters document Bell’s service as Governor of Mauritius and include the following subjects: descriptions of his accommodation, social life and leisure; work routine, official duties, colleagues, other officials, political factions, constitutional questions and Mauritius’s peoples; improvements in housing, education, sanitation and health; finance, economic initiatives and trade policy; and the views of the press (75 sheets).

These letters document Bell’s service as Governor of Mauritius and include the following subjects: the course of the First World War, the need to encourage patriotism among the Mauritians, the social life of the colony, and the management of the Dominican plantations (11 sheets).

100 x 140 mm. Uniformed group photographed inside a room. Regnard has not been identified, but was perhaps a Mauritian A.D.C.