Correspondence relating to various members of the Bell family.

Correspondence, programmes, flyers, newspaper cuttings, notebook with list of ‘Jimbour silver’ as at 3 Mar 1912

Remnants of handwritten letters.

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings relating to various Bell estates: Solicitor’s schedule of fees for CBP Bell (Colin Basil Peter Bell (1867-1934) estate, 1958. -- Newspaper cutting on death of Colin Basil Peter Bell and the loss of a great sportsman, The Bulletin, undated. -- Newspaper cutting for rates notice listing Joshua Peter Bell with photocopy of property subdivision map, c1977. -- Solicitor’s memo of fees ‘re Mrs Bell’, 3 Apr 1935. -- Correspondence relating to S.F. Bell estate (Sybil Francis Bell (nee Needham), 1946 to 1948. -- Correspondence relating to M.C.A. Bell estate (Marmaduke Charles Alexander Bell (d. 1942). -- Correspondence between Peter Bell (Colin Basil Peter Bell, 1902-1976) and Francis Needham Bell (‘Bing’), 1933 to 1964.

Correspondence between J.B. (Jim Burrell) and Francis Needham Bell (Binghi), 1931-1980. -- Correspondence of Francis Needham Bell, 1937-1982.

Blue cloth bound album, “Sunny Memories” on top left-hand corner of cover, initials "K. J." at bottom right-hand corner of cover. Catherine Jane Ferguson married Charles Syndey Jones (1861-1896) on 28 Oct 1889 in Melbourne. They had three daughters: Ella Maud (born 9 Mar 1891), Enid Frances Sydney (born 31 May 1892) and Kate Elaine Sydney (born 27 Apr 1895, also known as Katie, Kit or Kitty). After the death of Sydney Jones, Catherine married Joshua Thomas Bell.

This album contains 194 photographs dated 1897 to around 1901. There are twenty pages. Photographs have been pasted to the inside and back covers of the album. First five pages have captions with dates (1897 to 1901) and initials [of photographer?]. There are photographs of the family, children, Mount Morgan, 'Kenmore' (residence of John Ferguson, in Rockhampton), Rockhampton botanical gardens, 'Killin' (now called Yungaba, residence built by John Ferguson for Catherine Janes Ferguson and her husband, solicitor, Charles Sydney Jones), the Grandstand at the Rockhampton race course.

From page five, the last captioned page, photogaphs are taken when Catherine and her children travelled to Lenzie, Scotland, and include photographs from the trip there, activities while overseas, and what appears to be photographs from the trip back to Australia.

The Sunny Memories album was produced by Percy Lund & Co. and allowed photographs or photographic scraps to be inserted into the album. It was produced from 1898.

A 19th century carte de visite photo album. Brass clasp is missing. Initial page, with inscription is torn with only 'To' and 'wit[h]' still remaining. The album has 42 pages with 84 spaces for carte de visites to be displayed. Each page is specially made to allow insertion of carte de visties through slots in the bottom of two stiff sheets of cardbord and visible through cut portrait openings. There are four missing photographs and one photograph in the back of the book. It may have been compiled by Catherine Bell. Captions are provided where available, supplied titles, some by Sue Bell, are in square brackets:

1. J.P. Bell
2. Margaret M. Bell (Lady)
3. J.T. Bell
4. William Bell
5. C.B.P. Bell
6. Ossie Bell
7. J.T. Bell 1880s
8. [Woman, possibly Jinny Maxwell?]
9. Thomas Bell
10. Maida Isabella Sarah Bell.
11. Maida Bell, taken 1880
12. Thomas Bell, 1872
13. J.P. Bell,
14. [Photo missing]
15. [Gerald and Thomas de Lacy Moffatt?]
16. Colin Bell
17. Maida Bell
18. [J.T. and William Bell]
19. [Gerald Kellet Moffatt, son of Isabella dn Thomas Moffatt]
20. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt, son of Isabella and Thomas Moffatt]
21. Maida Bell
22. [Missing. Handwritten caption says 'T. B. Thomas Bell. d. 1872 with g'daughter Maida Moffatt]
23. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
24. [Gerald Kellett Moffatt]
25. [Early photo of one of the Moffatt girls?]
26. [Missing. Handwritten caption says Thos Bell]
27. [Gerard Kellett Moffatt?]
28. [Woman. Caption on reverse says Margaret M Bell but not correct]
29. C.B.P. Bell
30. [Photo of two young men]
31. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
32. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
33. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
34. [Missing]
35. [Missing]
36. [Older woman]
37. [Moffatt girl]
38. [Moffatt girl]
39. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
40. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
41. [Moffatt girl]
42. [Moffatt girl]
43. [Moffatt girl]
44. Maida I. S.
45. [Woman]
46. [Group of four women]
47. [Man]
48. Oswald
49. [Man]
50. [Woman]
51. [Young man]
52. [Woman]
53. [One of the adult male Bells?]
54. [Thomas de lacy Moffatt]
55. [Man. Inscription on reverse "To A Queenslander from a 'would be' Queenslander 30/6/81]
56. [Man]
57. [Woman]
58. [Handwritten note 'Welton']
59. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
60. [Man]
61. [Maida Bell? Not a carte de vistie]
62. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
63. C.B.P. Bell
64. Ossie Bell
65. [Inscription: Mr & Mrs Armstrong to their friend G Proley]
66. [Man]
67. J.T. Bell
68. [Man leaning against fence]
69. [Inscription: D. E. Brown, 1880]
70. [Boy]
71. J. T. Bell
72. J. T. Bell
73. [J.T. Bell]
74. J.P. Bell
75. [Young man]
76. [Young woman]
77. [Moffatt girl?]
78. [Moffatt girl?]
79. [Man on a horse in fromt of house]
80. [Horse drawn carriage]
81. [Landscape picture of man with unsaddled horse]
82. [Portrait picture of man with saddled horse]
83. "Ossie" & Maida
84. [Two boys]
    [85. Picture inserted in back of album of young woman with inscription on reverse 'From Evelyn']

Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles of Jimbour house, 1959 to 2001. Christmas card depicting Jimbour House, undated.

Photocopies of facsimiles of Jimbour land titles, Bell family wills, receipts and disbursements, 1906 to 1992.

Photocopies of newspaper cuttings regarding the Bell Memorial Committee, the Bell Memorial Fund and fate of the Bell library from Jimbour House, 1912 to 1922