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Bell, Joshua Thomas, 1863-1911 File
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Scrapbooks relating to Joshua Thomas Bell

Two scrapbooks with newspaper cuttings, correspondence, handwritten notes, and diary entries relating to Joshua Thomas Bell from 1903 to 1910. Inside cover of first book has 'Joshua Bell (1)' and the second 'Joshua Bell (2)'. Dairy entries indicate these scrapbooks belong to Catherine Bell.

Joshua Bell (1) scrapbook includes: diary entries about the Parliamentary Cup of 1904, a trip from Gladstone to Roma with many stops to rest their horses (including a story about the naming of Mt. Redshirt), a trip with 'Joey driving 4 strong horses in the dogcart', leaving on 6 Oct 1907, the trip on the Government steamer Lucinda in May 1908, a tour of the Burnett district in June 1906, ; newspaper cuttings about Joshua T. Bell, John Ferguson; flyers from Queensland Railways for the "Special train" for the Minister for Railways (J.T. Bell) in June 1907, April 1908, 4 Jun 1908; and one b&w photograph of the residents of Leichhardt in front of their Shire Hall.

Joshua Bell (2) scrapbook includes: diary entries for 1909-1910, two b&w photographs (one of the Leichhardt Tree and one of the welcome sign at Taroom?); invitation to the offical farewell dinner for Lord Chelmsford in May 1909 and seating plan ; seating plan with Lord Dudley at the center.

Bell, Catherine Jane, 1867-1943

'Recollections of Thomas Davis' collected by Steele Rudd.

This file has three typescript copies (two are carbon copies) of 'Recollections of Thomas Davis' collected by Steele Rudd, two of which have a note in the top right-hand corner 'In the posession [sic] of Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell circ. 1908-9'. One copy has handwritten emandations.

These recollections were shared with his son, Arthur Hoey Davis (1868-1935) (whose pen name was Steele Rudd) mostly likely in the early 1900's. Thomas Davis was a former convict. His memoir covers the period from 1849 to the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Davis initially worked with J. C. Burnett's Survey Party. He recounts stories of the places he visited and their history, various encounters with local indigenous groups and individuals, language and culture of the Aboriginal people of the area, kinship system in the Maronoa and Balonne region, and a list of more than 100 names and phrases in the dialect of the people of the Balonne, Dawson and Comet river. Joshua Peter Bell is mentioned several times in memoir. This and other recollections by Thomas Davis were collected by Joshua Thomas Bell in the first decade of the 20th century.

Davis, Thomas, 1828-1904

'Recollections of the Darling Downs - 45 years ago'

‘Recollections of the Darling Downs – 45 years ago’ by FRA Rickards, 3 typed copies of a letter from FRA Rickards to JT Bell, with cover note, 2 Nov 1909. Joshua Thomas Bell asked that F.R.A. Rickards write to him with his recollections of the Darlings Downs. The letter, only just over a foolscap page of typescript, from Rickards mentions various towns, farming stations, and people of the area. There are three typescript copies of the letter with the a typescript page attached to each explaining how Rickards wrote to Bell.

Rickards, F. R. A.

Programs, cards and correspondence relating to Joshua Thomas Bell

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]

Bell, Joshua Thomas, 1863-1911

'Notes from Alexander Johnston'

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.

Bell, Joshua Thomas, 1863-1911

Election ephemera, funeral and obituary notices

Joshua Thomas Bell: ‘How to vote’ flyer for Dalby election in 1893 ; [order of service] booklet for Hon. J.T. Bell, 11 Mar 1911; newspaper cuttings and photocopies of newspaper cuttings relating to funeral of Joshua Thomas Bell, 1911

Bell, Joshua Thomas, 1863-1911

Correspondence, to Colin Basil Peter Bell, 1881 to 1933

Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell (on death of brother Joey (Joshua Thomas Bell)), legal battle, Ossie Bell (Oswald Marmaduke Dorsey Bell), 38 letters, 1881 to 1933 [very fragile]. Order of Service for commemoration of the life of The Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell, 19 Mar 1911. Address to his Excellency Major-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside, 19 May 1903

Bell Family

Correspondence, Margaret Miller Bell, from 1894

Handwritten letters, most are addressed to 'My dear Collie'. Letters include: to 'My dear Collie' from 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'; letters, incoming and outgoing between Lady Bell and Daly & Schacht Solicitors; letter to Lady Bell from C. V. Hellicar (Solicitor); letters to 'My dear Mama' signed your affect. son Joshua T. Bell' (on letterhead for The Parliament of Queensland Library); letter to 'My dear Mama' from 'your affect. son Oswald M Bell' (on letterhead of Daly & Schacht Solicitors). Most of these letters relate to the financial matters.

Correspondence, Margaret Miller Bell, from 1893

Handwritten letters, most are addressed to 'My dear Collie'. Letters include: one signed 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'; one signed 'your affect. cousin, G. H. Moffatt' (on letterhead for The Dariling downs and Western Land Company, Limited); letters to solicitors by Margaret M Bell; a letters to Lady Bell from Daly & Schacht Solicitors; a letter to Collie from 'your affect. brother Joshua T. Bell' (on letterhead for The Parliament of Queensland Library).

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