Letter from letter to Mrs R. C. Jameson [Mrs Rowand Chalmer Jameson] (Sybil Margaret Grace Bell, daughter of Colin Basil Peter and Theodora Sybil Francis Bell) regarding gravestone inscription for her mother, 14 Nov 1947; The death of Donald Thistlethwayte [husband of Mary Alexander Moffatt], 20 Sep 1933; Part of a Funeral Order of Service, undated; Handwritten copy of lyrics to “Mandalay”, undated.

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.

Material relating to Marmaduke Alexander Thomas Bell. Includes: Photocopy of extract of death certificate of Marmaduke Alexander Thomas Bell, 20 May 1953 [?]. -- Photocopy of will of Marmaduke Alexander Thomas Bell, 20 Mar 1945.

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

Some of the social events that Francis Needham Bell participated in. Includes: Longreach, Isisford, Yalleroi, Barcaldine and desert amateur picnic race club statements, programs and reports, 1930 to 1943. -- Race Book of Colil Basil Peter Bell, 1904. -- 31 Dance cards of Francis Needham Bell, 1932 to 1946.

Dance card details: Wednesday, 18 July 1934 Longreach Gold Club's Annual Ball. -- Friday, 20 July 1934, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, no pencil. -- Friday, 9 November 1934, Longreach First Annual Diggers' Ball, Shire Hall. -- Thursday, 18 July 1935, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball. -- Friday, 8 November 1935, Longreach Second Annual Diggers' Ball, crest of Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia on cover. -- Friday, 1 May 1936, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club Annual Ball. -- Friday, 3 July 1936, Bachelors' Ball, 1936, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, no pencil. -- Wednesday, 22 July 1936, Longreach Gold Club's Annual Ball. -- Thursday, 23 July 1936, Caledonian Association Longreach Annual Ball. -- Friday, 24 July 1936 Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball. -- Friday, 13 November 1936, Diggers' Ball, Longreach Shire Hall. -- Thursday, 29 April 1937, Bachelors' Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, list of Barcaldine Bachelors on last page. -- Friday, 30 April 1937, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club, Annual Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine,tangled. -- Thursday, 22 July 1937, Caledonian Association, Longreach, Annual Ball, no pencil. --Friday, 23 July 1937 Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball. -- Friday, 23 July 1937, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball. -- Friday, 20 August 1937, Matrons' & Spinsters' Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine. -- Friday, 12 November 1937, Diggers' Ball, Longreach Shire Hall. -- Thursday, 21 July 1938, Caledonian Association, Longreach, Twenty-first Annual Ball, no pencil. -- Friday, 11 November 1938, Diggers' Ball, Shire Hall, Longreach, no pencil. -- 1939, Matrons' Ball. -- Friday, 21 July 1939, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball. -- Thursday, 18 April 1940, Barcaldine and District Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, no pencil. -- Friday, 19 April 1940, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club, Share Hall, Barcaldine. -- Friday, 24 May 1940 Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club Annual Ball. -- Friday, 12 July 1940, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball. -- Wednesday, 23 April 1941, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, - -- Friday, 18 July 1941, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, -- Friday, 17 May 1946, Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club Annual Ball. -- Tuesday, 22 July 1958, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, no pencil. -- Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club Annual Ball, undated.

This album was created by Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell. Photographs are arranged chronologically, mostly by location, and most have captions written beneath them. Included with this album are post-it sticky notes with information about some of the content of the album. These notes have been written by Sue Bell.

Photographs include: 'Spicer's Gap, April 1930', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Upper Logan and Cronan's Creek - Mount Barney - Easter 1930', 24 photographs with captions. -- 'Australia to England, P&O, R.M.S. Mooltan, May-June 1930', 25 photographs with captions. -- 'The Sunbeam, 1930', 4 photographs. -- 'Snowdonia, September 1930', 6 photographs with captions. -- 'English Lake District and Scotland, September 1930', 11 photographs with captions. -- 'Cotswold Hills, Bibury, September 1930', 7 photographs, some with captions. -- 'Brighton - October 1930, Mrs Stuart, Beth & J.P.F.B.', 11 photographs. -- 'Fontainbleau - October 1930, Mr. & Mrs. Stuart, Beth, & the Sunbeam', 6 photographs. -- 'Fontainbleau', 8 photographs, some with captions. -- Tilbury, January, 1931', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Dover - October 1930', 3 photographs, 1 missing, some with captions. -- 'The Continent, October - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Prague', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Austria', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Venice - November 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Switzerland - November 1930', 10 photographs with captions. -- 'South of France - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Spain - December 1930', 4 photographs with captions. -- [September 1930 to March 1931], 6 photographs with captions. -- 'Jimbour House, Darling Downs, Queensland', 6 photographs, some with captions. -- Marseilles to Bombay, P&O Mooltan, February, 1931', 6 photographs with captions. -- 'Mooltan', 12 photographs with captions. -- 'Swimming pool - Aden', 2 photographs with captions. -- 'India, March 1931', 7photographs with captions, inserted is a notice questing passengers to the a Vaccination Certificate, 2 May 1930. -- 'Mombasa, March 1931', 8 photographs with captions. -- 'Kenya Colony - March 1931', 10 photographs with captions. -- 'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, April 1931', 6 photographs with captions. -- '"Claude" - May 1931', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'September 1931', 11 photographs, some with captions. -- 'Kiambu Road Repairs - Jan. 1932', 2 photographs with captions. -- 'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, January 1932', 13 photographs with captions. -- 'Cricket in Kenya, 1931-32', 8 photographs with captions. -- 'Victoria Nyanza, Feb. 1932', 16 photographs with captions. -- 'Trip Home, March-June 1932', 47 photographs with captions. -- 'Coochin - June 1932', 19 photographs with captions. -- [Untitled page], 6 photographs photographs with captions. -- 'Westland - August 1932', 17 photographs with captions. -- 'September 1932', 19 photographs with captions.

This is a large commercially produced photograph album using a punch-and-bind system in which two metal posts are inserted through punched holes near the binding edge. There are 32 brown card pages in this album. The photographs have been adhered overall to the pages.

QANTAS shares [bought by Colin Peter Basil Bell] documentation and receipts from QANTAS, 1929; Brochure ‘QANTAS : The investors Opportunity!’ ca. 1929; Letter to Frances Needham Bell regarding QANTAS, 2 Jun 1947.

Papers relating to Sibyl Bell (Theodora Sybil Francis Needham) (1877-1945): Eulogy for Nigel Hugh St George Gore (1922-2008), 2008 [Sybil was the daughter of Grace Gore]; Correspondence, 2008; Letters to Sibyl Bell from her son Peter (Colin Basil Peter Bell (1902-1976)) and her daughter in law Hilda Bell (nee Walsh), 1936 to 1937.

Transcript of memoir of Francis Needham Bell. -- Four exercise books containing a written history of Francis Needham Bell. -- Letters from Ken Little to Francis Bell, most from Bendon, Barcaldine. -- Newspaper cuttings, article on rowing by Francis Bell. -- ‘Plea of a Pipe’ by CBP Bell. -- Note from Colin CBP Bell to son Francis on his appointment to Portland Downs on finishing school, 5 Dec 1927. -- Note re Francis, 17 Dec 1926.

Dance card details: Wednesday, 18 July 1934 Longreach Gold Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 20 July 1934, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, no pencil. -- Friday, 9 November 1934, Longreach First Annual Diggers' Ball, Shire Hall, tangled. -- Thursday, 18 July 1935, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 8 November 1935, Longreach Second Annual Diggers' Ball, tangled, Crest of Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia on cover. -- Friday, 1 May 1936, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 3 July 1936, Bachelors' Ball, 1936, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, no pencil. -- Wednesday, 22 July 1936, Longreach Gold Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Thursday, 23 July 1936, Caledonian Association Longreach Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 24 July 1936 Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 13 November 1936, Diggers' Ball, Longreach Shire Hall, tangled. -- Thursday, 29 April 1937, Bachelors' Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, tangled, List of Barcaldine Bachelors on last page. -- Friday, 30 April 1937, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club, Annual Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine,tangled. -- Thursday, 22 July 1937,Caledonian Association, Longreach, Annual Ball, no pencil. --Friday, 23 July 1937 Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 23 July 1937, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 20 August 1937, Matrons' & Spinsters' Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, tangled. -- Friday, 12 November 1937, Diggers' Ball, Longreach Shire Hall, tangled. -- Thursday, 21 July 1938, Caledonian Association, Longreach, Twenty-first Annual Ball, no pencil. -- Friday, 11 November 1938, Diggers' Ball, Shire Hall, Longreach, no pencil. -- 1939, Matrons' Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 21 July 1939, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Thursday, 18 April 1940, Barcaldine and District Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball, Shire Hall, Barcaldine, no pencil. -- Friday, 19 April 1940, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club, Share Hall, Barcaldine, tangled. -- Friday, 24 May 1940 Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club Annual Ball, tangled. -- Friday, 12 July 1940, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, tangled. -- Wednesday, 23 April 1941, Barcaldine Amateur Racing Club, Shire Hall, Barcaldine tangled, Friday, 18 July 1941, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, half of booklet missing, Friday, 17 May 1946, Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club Annual Ball, tangled. -- Tuesday, 22 July 1958, Longreach Amateur Race Club's Annual Ball, no pencil. -- Tower Hill Picnic Amateur Race Club Annual Ball, undated, tangled.

Publications collected by or featuring a person from the Bell family.

1. The Australian Pastoralist, Vol. 16 , No. 7, March 10, 1924. Features a story about the early days on the Darling Downs.
2. The Field : the country gentleman's newspaper Vol. CXLVII, no. 3823, Thursday, Apirl 1, 1926. Cover and story inside regarding the The University Boat Race in which J.B. Bell [J.P. Bell?] was one of the rowers.
3. Dr Bradfield’s scheme for watering inland Queensland [reprint from Longreach Leader, 31 Dec 1938]
4. Reproduction print of Goulds 'Graucalus mentalis'.
5. Reproduction print of Goulds 'Eurystomus Australia'.
6. Reproduction of the 1891 Agreement between the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia (NSW) and the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (NSW); with additional information at the bottom of the agreement; on the reverse a collage of copies of b&w photographs of shearers and advertisements from the era.