Copy of the booklet Inauguration of the University of Queensland on Queensland’s Jubilee Day, 10 Dec 1909, Cumming, Govt. Printer, Brisbane; with a facsimile of admission card for the Hon. J. T. & Mrs Bell. Inserted are loose hand written notes for the speech in the booklet by the Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell (Speaker of the Legislative Assembly)

Handwritten letter, one leaf, with an attached timeline and memoir, one leaf, from A Woodward (who was a Lyndhurst in 1905) to Joshua Thomas Bell, 12 Jul 1909. In his one page timeline he mentions Burburgate, Toorale, Warrego river, meeting Oscar de Satge. He says in his letter that Mr. H. McIntosh of the Survey Office he said there were inaccuracies in de Satges book.

This file contains various documents relating to Joshua Thomas Bell, including:
• Program for Parliamentary dinner … to His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Dudley, by the Members of the Queensland Ministry, 19 Jul 1909
• Program for Smoke concert and presentation to the Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell, 19 Mar 1909,2 copies
• In memoriam card, 2 copies
• In Memoriam card for Sir Joshua Peter Bell, 1881
• Program for the Tour of his excellency the Governor to norther and western Queensland, 1908
• Copy of letter dated 8 Jul 1907 from H. Bracker from Moreheads Limited responding to The Hon. J. T. Bells enquiry about certain aboriginal words and their meaning, including the words: Euoggera, Buyuba, Murrumba, Ballanur, Buyulegun, and Mooroolbin.
• Evans, George Essex. The sword of pain, Toowoomba : Weston & Harrison, 1905, with inscription on first page ‘The Hon. J.T. Bell – with the authors compliments, Nov 14th 1905’ and signed Geo. Essex Evans at the end of poem.
• Photocopy of page from marriage register with has Colin Basil Peter Bell and Sibyl Needham marriage, 3 copies, [1898]

Notes from Alexander Johnston. Typescript and carbon copy, 4 leaves, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1908-9’, undated. One typescript copy, 3 leaves, undated. Johnston recalls his time on the Darling Downs where he arrived in 1842, his time in Canning Downs, hostilities with Aboriginal Australians including at Soldiers' Flat and Laidley, Jimbour, Dalby, and people such as Ludwig Leichhardt, Henry Dennis, and Warraba.

Letter 29 January 1896 re: appointment of Justices of the Peace.

Letter to Joshua Thomas Bell with resume for Richard Welford by ED [Edward Decimus] Harries, 3 copies, 12 Sep 1908

Letter to Uncle Alick (John Alexander Bell, c1829-1901), from Joshua Thomas Bell, 21 Feb 1880

Typescript letter on Department of Public Lands letterhead, from Joshua T Bell to Collie [Colin Basil Peter Bell] regarding horses and land at Juandah, 25 Jan 1907

Documents, invitations, financial records, and personal papers relating to Joshua Thomas Bell and Catherine Jane Bell (nee Ferguson)

Information, photocopies of newspaper cuttings, articles and copies of photographs relating to horse racing and Show trophies won by Joshua Thomas Bell from 1865 to 1909