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.

Typescript copy of a letter to Chas. Hebden, Wanaaring Station, Paroo River. Letter was found with the possessions of B. S. Robinson who was found dead somewhere between Wandovale and Reedy Springs in March 1894. Accompanied by letter re the original "diary", from where the letter was copied.

Handwritten manual prepared for Justices of the Peace, Police Special Constables and other offices of the law. Author unknown.

Bookplate featuring a coat of arms with the motto 'Esperance sans peur'. The name 'Sir Samuel W. Griffith, G.C.M.G.' is printed underneath. Bookplate is accompanied by an envelope marked "Judges' Chambers, Brisbane."

Handwritten diary of John E. Greenham, from Ipswich, Queensland, of his voyage to England via Colombo and Suez Canal aboard the H.M.S. Ophir, from 20 March to 7 May 1895. Records his impressions of the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide during the voyage. On cover on bound volume: Students notebook

Black covered exercise book, mss in ink. Daily work book of a pupil teacher in North Ipswich, Queensland, Feb-May 1895.

Extracts made by J.D. Kerr in 1969, from the diaries in the Thomas Welsby Library of the Royal Queensland Historical Society. Extracts concern Pettigrew's railway enterprises.

Programme for Grand Opera under the direction of Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau at The Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois presenting Gounod's opera Romeo et Juliette with Mme Melba as Juliette and M. Jean de Reszke as Romeo.

Handwritten letters, most are addressed to 'My dear Collie' and signed 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'.

Black and white phototgraph on mounting board which appears to have been framed at some time (frame now removed). It shows the construction of the new railway bridge at Indooroopilly over the Brisbane River. The previous bridge had washed away in the 1893 floods. This photograph show crowds gathered to watch the hulk, Beatrice used on the Brisbane River to float another span on the Indooroopilly Railway Bridge. Like most material in this collection from this era, it was probably in the possession of Joshua Thomas Bell.