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132 x 81 mm. A view looking towards the circular thatched cottage with surrounding verandah, owned or rented by Bell at Blue Bay in the south-west of the island. The handwritten inscription on the reverse reads: 'The dear cottage of Blue Bay, 'Pointe d'Esny', Mahébourg, Mauritius. To dear Sir Hesketh Bell from Cécile Raffay.'

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210 x 165 mm. Interior view of a meeting in session, with HHB presiding. Possibly his final Council of Government, 5 August 1924. Some blurring and glare from lighting.

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210 x 165 mm. Interior view of a meeting in session, with HHB presiding. Possibly his final Council of Government, 5 August 1924. Some blurring and glare from lighting.

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150 x 100 mm. Group showing two nuns with Mauritian children and adults.

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140 x 80 mm. Showing a field of cows. Founded by HHB.

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140 x 80 mm. Interior scene. Founded by HHB.

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140 x 80 mm. Interior scene. Founded by HHB.

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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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74 x 94 mm. Showing deer in captivity in an enclosure, possibly at Le Reduit.

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, travels and personal affairs; letters to the press on mortality in Mauritius and suggestions for aiding sugar planters, Manchuria and the League of Nations, unemployment, and fish; the financial crisis; the Caribs of Dominica; the composition of ‘Glimpses of a Governor’s life’; a plan for international colonial conferences; Charles George Gordon; and spiritualism (circa 100 sheets).

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93 x 56 mm. Showing police on parade, with Bell standing beside a table for the distribution of medals.

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236 x 171 mm. View looking across a section of Port Louis, showing ruined houses, trees stripped bare of leaves and debris littering the ground. This devastating cyclone took place on 29 April 1892.

Scope and Contents Copies of articles by AFB as Chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom [later Liberation] on subjects including: visits to India, including the famine, progress in modernisation and hostilities with Pakistan over Kashmir; the future of Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the independence movement in Africa; the Vietnam War; the future of Mauritius; the Government's restriction of Commonwealth immigration; the state of the United Nations; the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the...

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77 x 101 mm. General views of the falls.

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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105 x 66 mm. HHB's arm is seen holding food out to fish.

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85 x 110 mm. HHB's arm is seen holding food out to fish.

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88 x 60 mm. An oval print showing Bell seated at the edge of an ornamental pond at Le Reduit.

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132 x 81 mm. Showing a man running across a bed of burning coals with a garland of flowers round his neck and a tall headdress of leaves. The pencilled inscription on the reverse reads: 'Walking through the fire. Man carrying the [?] cavadie across. Rose Hill, Mauritius, 2nd Jany 1928, J.W. Brodie.'

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Showing fish in a pool coming to be fed.

Scope and Contents 105 x 90 mm. Showing fish in a pool coming to be fed. Sir Geoffrey Archer records that when Bell became Governor of Mauritius in 1916: '... he built, at the bottom of Government House garden, an aquarium juting out into the sea. There he used to exercise an almost uncanny fascination for the deep-sea fish which, at a sign from him, would come swimming up to the surface to be tickled and fed.' (Archer 1963, p 44).This aquarium, being on the seashore, is presumably the one built...

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105 x 90 mm. Showing fish in a pool coming to be fed.

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105 x 90 mm. Showing fish in a pool coming to be fed.

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105 x 90 mm. An indistinct print showing a fish, or fish replica, being held by string.

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105 x 90 mm. An indistinct print showing a fish, or fish replica, being held by string.