Correspondence between Ronald Percy Bell and the Royal Society General correspondence following Bell's election to the Royal Society: on his personal record and reprints, and a request for information as he composed an obituary for Professor C A Coulson for The Times. A later letter enquires after one of his own papers, on 'Kinetics of the base-catalyzed bromination of nitroacetone', sent for publication but not received. Letters to and from the Assistant Secretary, David Christie Martin and the Librarian, Igor Kaye. The original file featured the typed name and address: 'R.P. Bell, Esq., F.R.S., Balliol College, Oxford'. 9 December 1947-7 June 1962