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Mauritius (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 297 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

My aquarium, Blue Bay, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/89
Scope and Contents

74 x 99 mm. Showing Bell seated beside the stone aquarium built by him near the waters edge at Blue Bay in 1916.

Dates: 1918
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).
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My box, 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/36
Scope and Contents

119 x 82 mm. Showing Bell and other Europeans in the Governor's box in the grandstand at Champ de Mars Race Course.

Dates: 1919 - 1921
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).
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My box at Floreal Races, 1919 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/113
Scope and Contents

142 x 85 mm. Floreal was a new suburb founded by HHB.

Dates: 1919 - 1923
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).
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My Napier, 1919 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/110
Scope and Contents

110 x 82 mm. Chauffeur-driven car outside Le Reduit

Dates: 1919 - 1923
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).
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My saloon, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/78
Scope and Contents

79 x 136 mm. Showing Bell standing on a station platform beside a railway carriage.

Dates: 1916
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).
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Myers and Sarah, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/57
Scope and Contents

74 x 87 mm. Showing Myers, a naval officer, crouched beside a large tortoise at Le Reduit.

Dates: 1916
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).
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New bridge over Grand River, 1923 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/154
Scope and Contents

135 x 90 mm.

Dates: 1923 - 1924
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).
 File

Notebook A, 1927 - 1946

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/3/5
Scope and Contents

Part of an incomplete notebook containing material for Bell’s memoirs, including suggestions for titles and notes of projected subjects or anecdotes. It begins with page 150 (30 sheets).

Dates: 1927 - 1946
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).
 File

Notes for reminiscences, 1922 - 1946

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/8
Scope and Contents This file contains source material that Bell collected for the composition of his memoirs, drawn from his official career or travels during his retirement. It includes notes on memorable people, places and experiences, or subjects of particular interest. The file also preserves two poems by Bell, the text of a speech that he gave at a West Indian Club dinner in 1909, correspondence regarding his tour of the Far East during 1925-26, the text of a lecture ‘Some aspects of colonial...
Dates: 1922 - 1946
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).
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One end of Ballroom, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/43
Scope and Contents

135 x 80 mm. As captioned: this section of the ballroom at Le Reduit is furnished with armchairs.

Dates: 1916
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).
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Outlet into the Bai du Cap, 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/22
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...
Dates: 1856
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).
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'Pals', 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/39
Scope and Contents

84 x 71 mm. Showing a small terrier balanced on the shell of a Mauritius tortoise.

Dates: 1919 - 1921
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).
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Pansy, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/41
Scope and Contents

134 x 79 mm. Showing Bell mounted on his horse Pansy on the drive in front of Le Reduit.

Dates: 1916
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).
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Part of the Moka range of mountains, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483B/5
Scope and Contents

135 x 193 mm. View looking towards the mountains with palms in the foreground.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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).
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[Pergola at Le Reduit], 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/70
Scope and Contents

233 x 174 mm. General view of the pergola built in the garden at Le Reduit by Bell.

Dates: 1916
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).
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Pergola I built in 1916, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/58
Scope and Contents

100 x 74 mm. General view of the pergola built in the garden at Le Reduit by Bell.

Dates: 1916
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).
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Peterbotte from Raisseau Rose, 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/26
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...
Dates: 1856
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).
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Peterbotte from the Nouvelle Decouverte Road, 1853

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/1/3/33
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...
Dates: 1853
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).
 Sub-Series

Photographs, 1970

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/7
Scope and Contents Print reproductions of Frome's South Australian watercolours and sketches, with a few works from Canada and Mauritius, and a portrait print of Frome himself. This section also includes copies of works relating to South Australia by other artists that Frome had acquired. A catalogue, 'The Australian collection of General E.C. Frome in the Royal Commonwealth Society' written by RCS Librarian Donald Simpson, is stored with the collection, along with a listing by R.G. Appleyard 'Captain E.C....
Dates: 1970
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).
 Fonds

Photographs of Mauritius, 1890s

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30483A
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose uncaptioned albumen prints.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
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).
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Pic due Pieterboth mountain [sic], 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/94
Scope and Contents

89 x 139 mm. Monochrome postcard of the summit, published by 'Magasins Reunis'.

Dates: 1918
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).
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[Picnic group at Le Reduit], 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/46
Scope and Contents

98 x 74 mm. Showing a European group seated beside a woodland pool.

Dates: 1919 - 1921
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).
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[Picnic scene, ? Grand River], 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/59
Scope and Contents

78 x 101 mm. Showing a European group seated on rocks and eating a picnic lunch.

Dates: 1916
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).
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Place d'Armes, Port Louis, 1922 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/148
Scope and Contents

350 x 170 mm. Two photographs joined to form a panorama looking over the harbour.

Dates: 1922 - 1923
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).
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[Place d'Armes, Port Louis, looking out into the harbour], 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/88
Scope and Contents

115 x 65 mm. Water colour, signed F. de Segrai (?).

Dates: 1921 - 1924
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).