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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).

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

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110 x 85 mm. Showing HHB and Denham on the occasion of Bell's return to Mauritius, March 1923.

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150 x 85 mm. Sepia photograph looking across lake with boat in the foreground, and mountains in distance.

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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Printed untitled folded map measuring 520 x 736 mm bearing Frome's signature. It is stored with RCMS 40/3.

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A collection of loose prints (mainly snapshots). The prints are largely uncaptioned and much of this item lacks detailed identification (although many of the prints certainly relate to Bell's trip to the Far East in 1925-26).

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A collection of loose prints (mainly snapshots). The prints are largely uncaptioned and much of this item lacks detailed identification (although many of the prints certainly relate to Bell's trip to the Far East in 1925-26).

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55 x 80 mm. Showing the three girls grouped on the summit, with the sea in the background.

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131 x 78 mm. Showing the three daughters of Pierre Adam, a member of the Mauritius Council of Government, seated in canework chairs on a verandah.

Scope and Contents Notes on Mauritius’s people, culture, economy, history and natural history written or collected by Bell, some extracted from his diary. The file also includes Bell’s speech on his re-appointment as Governor in 1922, a minute on working class dwellings in Port Louis, 27 Apr. 1922, a speech on the opening of the Council of Government, 10 June 1924, a few newspaper clippings and items of correspondence, a map showing the location of mosquitoes in 1922, and a postcard of a dodo (circa 120...

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Correspondence, arranged by subject, relating to Fergus Wilson's work for the F.A.O., with a few related papers.

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A scrapbook album containing prints relating to Bell's Governorship of Mauritius from his return from leave in 1919 to his final departure in 1924. There are also some scenes in east Africa and Britain during his 1919 leave and some of a visit to Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1921.

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

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A series of photographs of the University of Mauritius, Réduit, founded in 1965.

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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When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.

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Collection of photographs measuring 245 x 180 mm, showing ceremonies at medical and economic events.

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A series of photographs of the University of Mauritius, Réduit, founded in 1965.

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136 x 79 mm. Showing a troop of Boy Scouts on parade.

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An undated history of Mauritius, 412 pages, comprising a page inscribed 'No. 24 Notice Historique'; 'Table des Matieres de la Notice Historique' (numbered pp. 787-799); and a chronological account of events in Mauritius from 1507 to 1824 (numbered pp. 801-1196).

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Three documents written or compiled by Edward Frome relating to Mauritius.

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126 x 76 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held on 19 October 1916.

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127 x 76 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held on 19 October 1916.

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85 x 110 mm. A mounted photograh of the memorial showing an English and a French soldier holding up a wreath.