Photocopies and thermal paper copies of land titles associated with Jimbour and letter from 2002.

Documents, invitations, financial records, and personal papers relating to Colin Basil Peter Bell and Theodora Sybil Frances Bell (nee Needham). Most of Colin Basil Peter Bell's correspondence can be found in Series A.

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'

‘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.

‘Codrington Crawshay’, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1980-9’, typescript, 3 pages, 2 copies, and copy of first page, undated [Extract from ‘The Northern Miner’, Mon 25 Apr 1910]

Photocopy of typescript copy, with emendations in pencil and pen, of ‘Reminiscences of a Pioneer in New South Wales’ by Edmund Morey which featured in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser from Wed 30 Oct 1907 to Wed 9 Jan 1908, 116 leaves, undated. Pagination not in sequence.

Morely describes this firts year in Sydney, West Maitland and South-Western New South Wales in the 1840s to 1850s. Includes descriptions of Sydney in 1842, pioneering life, Australian Aboriginal peoples, station life, overlanding, bush inns, Melbourne, Adelaide, the Murray River, the steamer services by the Lady Young and the Gemini. People mentioned include: Richard Greves Macdonnell (Governor of South Australia), Ludwig Leichhhardt, James Tyson and Captain Sturt.

Chapter I - Sydney. -- Chapter II - Country life. -- Chapter III - Necessity for removing stock from Gundaroo. -- Chapter IV - Natives attack Ross's Camp. -- Chapter V - Take up a cattle station. -- Chapter VI - Unsuitability of lower Murray for cattle. -- Chapter VI - Natives make peace. -- Chapter VIII - First white woman on Lower Murray. -- Chapter IX - First visit to South Australia. -- Chapter X - Adelaide. -- Chapter XI -- New land district proclaimed. The Albert. - Chapter XII - Return to Gundaroo, and revisit Sydney. -- Chapter XIII - Looking for cattle country on the Darling. -- Chapter XIV - Take up a cattle station. -- Chapter XV - Stock the new station, Tintanallogy. -- Chapter XVI - My first visit to Melbourne. -- Chapter XVII - Rebuild head station at Euston. -- Chapter XVIII - Ride to Adelaide. -- Chapter [XIX] - The scene of a murder. -- Chapter [XX] - Leading up to the navigation of the Murrary. -- Chapter [XXI] - Disappearnace of my stockman at Tintanallogy. -- Chapter [XXII] - Surprise blacks with slaughtered cattle. -- Chapter [XXIII] - The Darling begins to run. -- Chapter [XXIV] - Another visit to South Australia. -- Chapter [XXV] - Navigatin of the Murrary. -- Chapter [XXVI] - Pass through the scrub to the north of my run into open country. -- Chapter [XXVII] - Effects following gold discovery in Victoria. -- Chapter [XXVIII] - The rebound and boom times. -- Chapter [XXIX] - Visit Monaro and purchase 10,000 wethers. -- Chapter [XXX] - Three of us pull down the Murray. -- Chapter [XXXI] - Another visit to Melbourne. -- Chapter [XXXII] - Small settlement on the banks of three navigable rivers after 50 years occupation. -- Chapter [XXXIII] - Governor Macdonnell on the Murray. -- Chapter [XXXIV] - A sailor in a tight place. -- Chapter [XXXV] - Pay a visit to the old country. -- Chapter [XXXVI] - Cruising about England and on the Continent. -- Chapter [XXXVII] - Return to Australia and land in Melbourne. -- Chapter [XXXVIII] - Sell out in Riverina and re-invest in Queensland. -- Chapter [XXXIX] - Excerpts to the Queensland Press during 1888. -- Chapter [XXXX] - Become a police magistrate in Queensland. -- Chapter [XXXXI] - A six months holiday. Visit Tasmania and New Zealand. -- Chapter [XXXXII] - Revisit the old country and return to Queensland to end our days.

Possibly in the possession of J. T. Bell.

Scrapbook for newspaper cuttings produced by Marcus Ward & Co. with [indecipherable] Bell no. 3 written on inside cover. Most likely to be a continuation of the scrapsbooks titled Joshua Bell (1) and Joshua Bell (2) that were collated by Catherine Bell. This scrapbook contains: newspaper cuttings relating to the death of Joshua Bell in 1911; a picture of "J.T.B's 'digs' at Trinity Hall, Cambridge; newpaper cuttings about Joshua Thomas Bells' father, Joshua Peter Bell; newspaper cuttings about Jimbour House and it's sale after the deather of Joshua Thomas Bell; handwritten notes; correspondence; articles about Dalby history. There are 88 b&w photographs including: Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Bell Monument Dalby; Jimbour House; Jinny Maxwell; 151 Moray Street New Farm; Catherine Bell; Joshua Thomas Bell; Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell; Margot Margaret Maxwell Bell; the Bell Monument at Toowong Cemetery; Rakeevan; Enid; Kitty; Ella; and Kitty's house Graceville. After the death of Catherine Bell in 1943 additional newspaper cuttings have been added to the scrapbook, most relating to Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell.

Material relating to Joshua Peter Bell, Margaret Miller D'Orsey Bell (nee Douglas) and their children.

Photocopy of correct typescript ‘Moffatt Memories’ compiled by Ruth V Leslie and read on the 11 Oct 1962 at Newstead House, Brisbane. Her granfather was Samuel Moffatt who lived at Cumkillenbah Homestead on the Darling Downs. There are some brief notes on the Aboriginal Australians who lived there. Family history for Thomas de Lacy Moffatt from the Darling Downs Pioneer Index; Thomas de lacy Moffatt married Mary Isabella MacDonald (nee Bell), widowed daughter of Thomas and Sarah Bell. Photocopies of death notices for Mary Isabella Moffatt (nee Bell) (1826-1866). Indenture dated 6 Oct 1893 re transfer of estate which included Thomas de Lacy Moffatt. Photocopy of marriage certificate of Thomas De Lacy Moffatt and Mary Isabella MacDonald (nee Bell), 17 Apr 1850 and copy of particulars recorded in register of NSW. Photocopied pages 2-4 of Digger – Queensland Pioneers Index 1829-1889.

Photocopies of wills, extracts of wills, and estate details. Includes: Letters and material relating to the Organ at St Paul’s Ipswich, 2009. -- Photocopy of letters from Herbert Kelly, Anita O’Connors father [great great grand daughter of John Alexander Bell], 4 Mar 1985. -- Photocopy of probate of will of Frances Georgina Bell, 1911. -- Photocopy of probate of will of Edmund Alexander Charles Harford Kelly, 1981. -- Photocopy of written will of Frances Georgina Bell, 1911. -- Photocopy of will of Florence Lilian Irene Maggs, 14 Sep 1985. -- Photocopy of extract of death certificate of Florence Lilian Irene Maggs, 16 Nov 1992. -- Photocopy of indenture between AJ Melbourne Maggs and Margaret Macarthur-Onslow, 6 Aug 1996. -- Photocopy of extract of death certificate of Elsie Maude Bell, 21 Feb 1962. -- Photocopy of will of Elsie Maude Bell, 6 Apr 1955. -- Photocopy of will of John Hubert Thomas Robert Kelly, 7 Jun 1988. -- Photocopy of will of Georgina Emma Alexander Badham, 17 Feb 1943. -- Photocopy of extract of will of Frances Sarah Alexander Kelly, 11 Jun 1947. -- Photocopy of probate engrossment of Frances Sarah Alexander Kelly, 1 Aug 1940. -- Photocopy of letter from Loretta Alice Moffatt denouncing interest in her share of land in Dalby and bequeathing it to Margaret Macarthur-Onslow, 17 Nov 1988. -- Photocopy of indenture between A.J. Melbourne Maggs and Margaret Macarthur-Onslow re land in Dalby, 6 Aug 1996. -- Photocopy of legal document re land in Dalby, interested parties being John Hubert Kelly and Margaret Alice Macarthur-Onslow, 13 May 1983. -- Photocopy of will of Dame Margaret Miller Bell, 16 Jan 1914. -- Photocopy of extracts from Hayward/Webb index [births] relating to Bell family. -- Photocopy from Queensland Pioneer Index, 1829-1889 relating to Dorsey. -- Photocopies of newspaper cuttings relating to the death of Lady Bell, 1912 to 1914. -- Photocopies of will of Dame Margaret Miller Bell, 5 Aug 1914. -- Photocopy of account of the life of Margaret Bell after the death of Joshua Bell. -- Letter to Mrs J Phillips from Brisbane Grammar relating to Bell family attendance at that school.