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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

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An album of small photographs, mostly stuck in but with 22 loose. There are rather sketchy captions.

1-278 and 283 are of Egypt and the Sudan including the Sennar (Makwar) Dam and the Kor Arbaat project, 279 of Venice and 280-282 of Germany.

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Also includes a packet of small photographs, from [?] a royal visit to Germany by King Edward VII aboard the royal yacht HMY Victoria and Albert.

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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

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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Photographs from the Cape Flight, 1920; Belgium, France, Zurich, Surrey and Wales, 1920; R36, 1921; Jersey, 1921; Scotland, 1922; Amsterdam and Berlin, 1923; the King's Cup, 1923; Gothenburg, 1923; and Spitsbergen, 1924. Photographs 1-3, 65, 72, 82, 149 and 241 are housed in separate clear plastic sleeves.

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106 x 82 mm.

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Draft papers and correspondence on the boundary between eastern Germany and Poland.

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Subjects include: sources of information from Germany; concerns about the terms imposed upon Germany.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection includes personal documents and honours (PJGG 1); general correspondence (PJGG 2 and 12); material relating to India including finance papers (PJGG 3), political papers (federation and defence) (PJGG 4), miscellaneous reports (PJGG 5), War Office papers about India (PJGG 8); Lady Grigg's correspondence (PJGG 6 and 7); War Office correspondence (PJGG 9); Committee papers (PJGG 10); literary material (PJGG 13-15).Perhaps the most interesting papers are those...

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and extensive travel within Europe; the final reports of the Colonial Films Committee and the Colonial Appointments Committee; the Caribs of Dominica; letters to the press on cinema in the colonies, film censorship and other themes; Mauritian finance; and spiritualism (circa 100 sheets).

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Prominent subjects include Bell's social life, interests, travel and personal affairs, including a serious illness caused by heart disease; the Caribs of Dominica; attendance at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale; the Manchuria Crisis and the League of Nations; and press articles on colonial cinema, the Union Coloniale Française, France's aid to her colonies, the cultivation of bananas in West Africa, hospital transportation and Charles George Gordon (circa 100 sheets).

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and travel; spiritualism; and letters to the press on the League of Nations, disarmament, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the administration of justice in Africa (circa 80 sheets).

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A diary of time spent in France (1927), Belgium (1928), Germany (1929), Holland (1930), Scotland (1930-1931), France (1931), Northumberland (1932), Malvern (1932) and Stratford-upon-Avon (1933).

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A diary of time spent in Spain and Morocco (1933), the Channel Islands (1934), England (1934), Ireland (1935), Italy via Germany (1937), Lincolnshire and the Cotswolds (1939), Lynmouth (1940), Sussex (1941), Somerset (1942), the north of England and Wales (1943) and the Lake District (1944).

Scope and Contents Lectures and notes on subjects including: the duties, ships and operations of the Navy; India, c 1920; naval history; torpedo development (including letters and notes from Bernard Haigh [Professor of Applied Mechanics, Royal Naval College, Greenwich] and Engineer-Captain Francis Haigh [Superintendent, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock],1927); Davis's reflections on China and Japan, 1934-35; the situation in Germany, Oct-Dec 1933.Also includes a letter and poems from Davis's...

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This box contains several drawings of Canada and Mauritius by Frome which formed part of his missing sketchbooks, and engravings by other artists acquired by him. It also includes photographic reproductions of Frome’s five sketches of Kingston, Ontario, which were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre of Queen’s University, Kingston in 1975. These were originally numbers 186, 189-91 and 196 of Album 6 (now RCMS 40/1/6).

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140 x 190 mm souvenir print showing the port, fishing boats and prominent landmarks on the island, created by J. Gray and printed by P.P. Hansen.

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107 x 82 mm.

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100 x 75 mm.

Scope and Contents Pages 1-59 and 68-81: Newscuttings taken predominantly from 'The Argus', 1893-1894, concerning the South Pacific, including Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hebrides and Samoa.Pages 60-67 and 82-87: Newscuttings concerning Stettin and the consulship, 1897-1898, including many articles on trade and industry and Germany.Pages 87-89: Newscuttings concerning Pennsylvania and the United States in general, 1913, including a few loose cuttings.Pages 93-106: A series of...

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 Miscellaneous correspondence on Germany, on subjects including: secret Anglo-German industrial contracts, negotiated in 1911, and the hope that these would help to avoid war; post-war reparations; avoiding another war with Germany through the League of Nations and an alliance with France; MAR's concern about pro-German sympathisers in Britain and the Polish Corridor; MAR's introduction to Edgar Dugdale's edition of German diplomatic documents, 1871-1914.Other correspondents...

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 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...