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134 x 78 mm. A slightly blurred view looking across the flag-draped courtyard of Government House, showing Bell announcing the armistice to the crowd from the first floor verandah.

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130 x 78 mm. Showing Bell marching with Lt. Col. Austin Charles Godfrey (Inspector General of Police) and Major E.W.N. Walker, Officer commanding troops in Mauritius. Photograph probably taken outside Government House on Bell's arrival.

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172 x 148 mm. View looking across the course towards the grandstand, with race-goers seated on the grass or strolling across the field.

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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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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.

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

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130 x 78 mm. Showing troops drawn up outside Government House, probably on Bell's arrival as Governor.

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204 x 150 mm. Showing Bell, Lightfoot, other Europeans and a large group of Indians standing in front of a flower-decked marquee.

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179 x 128 mm. Showing Bell climbing into an automobile parked in front of the main entrance to Government House. The statue of Sir William Stevenson can be seen more clearly in this print. Photograph by Baretti.

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140 x 72 mm. Coloured postcard.

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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.

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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).

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...

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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73 x 97 mm. Statue of Sir William Stevenson at the entrance to Government House, Port Louis. The likeness was made by the Mauritian artist Prosper d'Epinay, and unveiled in 1867. The caption wrongly gives Stevenson's initial as 'J'.

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

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

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

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130 x 80 mm. postcard.

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pen and ink sketch

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pen and ink sketch

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105 x 82 mm.

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105 x 82 mm.

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195 x 146 mm. View looking across the course towards the mountains, with race goers in the foreground. In the background can be seen the obelisk over Governor Malartic's tomb. Photograph by (? William) Baretti.