In his 1960 book North Borneo, K. G. Tregonning described Maxwell Hall as J. Maxwell Hall, a retired senior officer of the Chartered Company .. one of the very few elderly Englishmen living in the Colony .. the grand old man of the territory.
Several of Maxwell Hall's books have been reprinted, most recently Labuan Story: Memoirs of a Small Island near the Coast of North Borneo in 2008.