Correspondence to Colin Basil Peter Bell regarding Joshua Thomas Bell’s (Joey) death, 28 letters, 1910 to 1911. Correspondence to Colin Basil Peter Bell regarding Joshua Thomas Bell’s (Joey) death, 12 telegrams, 1911.

One typescript page and seven handwritten pages, of various sizes, with lists of Aboriginal Australian words. Three pages with pen handwritting have a note across the first page saying they were given to Joshua Thomas Bell at Jimbour on 2 Mar 1897 and appear to be from the envelope with the notes 'Aboriginal Vocabulary, supplied at jimbour, 2nd March 1897, by 'old Combo, Darlo, and Nipper. JTB'. Some pages are written in pencil and there is one page of typescript. There is a handwritten note inserted in this file (with the date 17 Jun 2010 printed at the bottom) that says Darlo spoke Yarrawa [sic] dialect, the dialect ... Jimbour to Dalby'; Old Combo came from Big River, New South Wales and spoke the Hamilario [?] N.S.W. dialect [possibly Gamilaroi ?]

This files includes: correspondence, notes, newspaper cuttings, 'Order of Service ... on the 125th anniversary of the famly of The Hon Sir Joshua Peter Bell commencing residence in Jimbour House 7 April 2002', and 'Order of proceedings' for the cellar door opening on 7 April 2002.

Photocopies of correspondence to Colin Basil Peter Bell regarding Joshua Thomas Bell’s (Joey) death, 28 letters, 1910 to 1911. Correspondence to Colin Basil Peter Bell regarding Joshua Thomas Bell’s (Joey) death, 12 telegrams, 1911.

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

Photocopies of letters from the Bell family, 1880 to 1907 [provided by Anita O’Connor, descendant of Sarah Bell (nee Alexander) and son, John Alexander Bell]

Historical information about the house called 'Rakeevan', situated in Graceville, Brisbane. The house was originally built for Charles Hardie Buzzacott in 1888 and was called 'Verney'. John Ferguson bought the house in 1895 as a residence for his daughter Mary Ann Ferdinando Ferguson and her husband Alfred Henry Chambers, who named it 'Rakeevan'. When they moved, John Ferguson presented the house to his second daughter, Catherine Jane Ferguson and her husband Joshua Thomas Bell. The house, after more changes of ownership and usage is now an aged care facility with the original name of 'Verney' and is heritage listed.

Photocopies of parts of scrapbook of Catherine Jane Bell (nee Ferguson) (1847-1943), 1906 to 1910

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]

Varous documents and material related to Colin and Sybil Bell and their family. Includes:
• a letter from the Longreach District Railway League,
• financial information including share details (including QANTAS shares)
• estate information,
• race horse lease
• correspondence regarding the estate of Sybil Frances Bell, 1945 to 1947;
• Newspaper cuttings of the marriage of Josephine Thora Bell (daughter of Colin and Sybil Bell to Arthur Hamilton Taylor (on 18 Jul 1933), engagement notice, death notice for Arthur Hamilton Taylor (photocopy of originals provided);
• Pocket Calendar for 1907 [London: Ernest Nister, printed in Bavaria], with inscription ‘To S. Bell from [the P. P.?] with best wishes for 1907’, [most likely Sybil Bell, wife of Colin Basil Peter Bell].
• estate information,
• Letter to Frances (Needham Bell) (son of Colin and Sybil Bell), regarding an article by E.T. Towner, 1947?, with a copy of Towner's article 'Nationalisation of banks'