Students noted were Kester George (matr. NC 1953); Vicars-Miles (matr. MC 1954); David Hannay (matr. NC 1956); Peter Cairns, John Dinwiddy (matr. NC 1957); David Stephenson, Hugh Stevenson, George Steer, Paul Guinness (mat. NC 1959); Thomas Harrison-Topham, Jonathan Gillman, John Neves, Francis Richardson (matr. NC 1960); Piers Legh-Jones, Henry Brownrigg (matr. NC 1961); Barnaby Blatch, David Ritchie, Roger Angus (matr. NC 1962); Andrew Schuller (matr. NC 1963); Nicholas Kennedy, Giles Pepler (matr. NC 1964). Several of these names are also represented in the main correspondence series (see section 4).
Letters to Bell from Winchester College staff include Richard Bass, Tom Howarth (history master), Colin Hunton, Walter Oakeshott (headmaster), Harold Walker (history master), Anthony Wood (history master). Letters from NC fellows include K.S. Davies (history tutor), W.G. Hayter (Warden), E.C. Yorke (Mods tutor).