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

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]

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres. Albert Hall 1881-1884, Academy of Music 1884-1886, Gaiety Theatre 1886-1889, Albert Hall 1901-1968.

Photocopies of extracts from letters written by Cuthbert Edward Peek while on the Queensland and British 1882 Transit Expedition, 29 Oct to 18 Dec 1882, 3 copies. [Cuthbert Edward Peek was a self-funded amateur astronomer who joined the official observers from the Royal Geographical Society that travelled to Jimbour Station and chose Jimbour House as the transit station to observe the transit of Venus; Jimbour House had been recently vacated].

Fryer Family Documents
Box 1 Folder 10:
• Marriage Certificate, Charles George Fryer and Rosina Richards, District of Rockhampton, 1883
• Copy of Certificate of Marriage of Charles George Fryer and Rosina Fryer née Richards, District of Rockhampton, 1883
• Birth Certificate for Elizabeth Stuart Fryer, District of Springsure, 1884
• Birth Certificate of William Thomas Fryer, District of Rockhampton, 1887
• Birth Certificate of Charles George Fryer, District of Rockhampton, 1889
• Marriage Certificate of James Stephen Gilmour and Elizabeth Stuart Fryer, District of Springsure, 1919
• Copy of Certificate of Marriage of James Stephen Gilmour and Elizabeth Stuart Fryer
• Death Certificate of William Thomas Fryer, District of Springsure, 1946
• Memorandum from Queensland Department of Public Correction to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re admittance to Department as a pupil-teacher, Brisbane, 23 Feb 1899
• Annual examination results between 1900 to 1903 for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer as a pupilteacher
• Examination result, Teacher Third Class for Miss Elizabeth Fryer, 1904
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 3, 19 Dec 1905
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 2, 1906
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 1, 1908
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 18 Mar 1910
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re transfer from Springsure State School to Ashgrove State School, 23 Sep 1910
• Springsure State School Committee resolution to Miss E. Fryer on the occasion of her transfer to Ashgrove, Brisbane, 30th Sep 1910
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 4 Mar 1911
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 3, 15 Dec 1911
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 17 Jul 1912
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re transfer from Ashgrove State School to Springsure State School, 4 Jun 1913
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 2, 5 Feb 1915
• Military Forces of the Commonwealth Junior Cadet Training Certificate for Miss E. Fryer, 2 Dec 1916
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 3, 7 May 1918
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re application to take leave of absence with full pay, 28 Feb 1919
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re resignation from Department on occasion of her marriage, 22 Jul 1919
• Mrs Rosina Fryer employment references as matron of the Springsure Hospital and as midwife, 1917 to 1925. These references were required by Mrs Rosina Fryer when she sought to obtain her midwifery certificate in the 1920s. She delivered her first baby at 12 years of age. Information supplied by Mrs Alexis R Lear, Mrs Rosina Fryer’s granddaughter, at the time of donation

Box 2
Folder 1
• Magazine clipping: ‘The Stars Look Down on Bangslappers’ re Norman Lindsay, The Australasian Women’s Weekly, 25 Aug 1971
• Hand annotated scores to ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘Dear Lord and Father of Mankind’ by Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Drawing by John D Fryer ‘in his Uni days when he knew P.R. Inky Stevenson entitled ‘The Moaning of the Tied (Tide).’ Donated by Mrs Alexis R Lear, Townsville niece of G. R. Lear, May 1976
• Newspaper clipping, ‘Mrs Wheeler’s work recalled by family’, The Capricornian, 22 Jan 1975
• ‘Crystal Ball’ A poem typed by Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 1978 to 1979
• Australian Red Cross Society membership receipt for Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Newspaper cutting: featuring photograph of Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour at a piano on her 95th birthday
• Newspaper cutting: entitled ‘Happy Mother’s Day munching’
• Newspaper cutting: ‘Special tea for some special ladies’
• Newspaper cutting: ‘A mothers luncheon’, 1980
• Newspaper cutting ‘Grandmother is Arts graduate-and all by mail’ [nd]
• Card with Bellevue Homestead on front
• Letters to Mr and Mrs Lear, mainly from relatives

Folder 2
• Unidentified letter dated 1912 [Possibly Lily McCury (?)]. Sender’s address: 3 Spencer Villas, Kingston.
• Unidentified letter page (nd)
• Letter from Lily McCury [?], Spencer Villas, Glenagleary, [Ireland], [nd]
• Card: ‘Greetings from the Camel Corps’ from George Moffit to Elizabeth S Fryer
• Poem: ‘The Supreme Sacrifice’ by John S. Arkwright
• Post card: Patriotic Carnival Procession, (Aug. 26th 1916)
• Christmas Card, ‘Alf - With love to Lizzie’ [December 1917]
• Letter from Aunt Linda Fryer, Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, Ireland to Elizabeth S Gilmour [née Fryer], 19 Oct 1919
• Letter from Aunt Linda Fryer, Ireland to Elizabeth S Gilmour, 9 Dec 1923
• Letter from Veronica Baggaly, Sandgate to Mrs [E. S.] Gilmour, [circa 192?]
• Letter from Aunt Aggie to [?], Sep 1924
• Letter from [Lex Lear?] to [Elizabeth S Gilmour?], 16 Oct 1947
• Letter form Elizabeth S Gilmour to her daughter Lex Lear, 16 Jan 1950
• Letter from Aunt Kitty, [?] Ipswich, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth S Fryer, 15 Feb 1952[?]
• Card from the University of Queensland French Department to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour re her donation to the Mary Alexis Macmillan [Memorial] Fund, 15 Feb 1972
• Letter from Douglass [Fryer], 32 Jackson St, to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 7 Mar 1979
• Letter from Douglass and Agnes Fryer to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 11 Jun 1979
• Birthday card and letter from Ann and Don Lear [Grandson], Sandgate to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, Springsure, 26th Jun 1979
• Envelope with family details of Don and Ann Lear
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour, Townsville to her daughter Lex Lear, 2 Jan 1980
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to her granddaughter, Stephanie Lear, 4 Feb 1980
• Letter from Don Ryan to Mrs S. Gilmour, 13 Aug 1980
• Letter from Mrs Veronica Sirman [nee Baggerly], friend of JD Fryer, Herstonville Convalescent Home, Herston, to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Bundle: Assorted letters and cards to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Twenty postcards + one card (belonging to Rosa Richards [?]) and one small hand painted card (painted by Eunice Gilmour) [previously housed in Kolotex box].

Kerosene-fuelled magic lantern projector [possibly made by John Browning of The Strand, London circa 1885], 7 wooden mounting frames for use in projector, 24 glass slides [some of Melbourne, circa 1890s?].
Glass slides are mostly colour and 8 x 8 cm, supplied titles in square brackets:

1. [Lantern slide, with drawing of a rooster, undated]. --
2. [Lantern slide, with illustration depicting a cat peeping over table at rats eating a cake, undated]. --
3. [Lantern slide with text of 'Rule, Britannia' by James Thomson, undated]. --
4. [Lantern slide, with illustration of sparrows, undated]. --
5. [Two brown treecreepers perched on a chopped tree trunk fixed to a base, undated]. --
6. [Carnations, undated]. --
7. [Carnations, undated]. --
8. [Carnations, undated]. --
9. [View of the Upper Ward towards the northwest, with George IV gateway at the extreme left, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, undated]. --
10. [View of unidentified building, road in foreground, unidentified location, undated]. --
11. [Lantern slide, with illustration of a castle by a river, showing a boat in the foreground and a bridge, trees and bird flying in background, undated]. --
12. [Sculpture, bust of woman, undated]. --
13. St Kilda foreshore, Melbourne, [ca. 1914?]. --
14. [View of unidentified street, unidentified location, c1900 - ?]. --
15. Railway Buildings, Spencer Street, [Melbourne, undated]. --
16. [View of trams on tram track, Melbourne, undated]. --
17. Botanic Gardens [with view of Government House from lake, Melbourne, undated]. --
18. Coburg gardens, [Melbourne, undated]. --
19. Camberwell, TH GDNS [gardens?], [Our Lady of Victories in background, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, undated]. --
20. [View of Place de la Bastille with Colonne de Juillet at centre, Paris, undated]. --
21. Blank slide. --
22. [Four hand painted scenes].

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres.

Letters received by Nettie Darling (nee Carlin) by friends and family. Includes letters by her mother Sarah Carlin, and her aunt Betsey Quinton 'Bettie' Carlin (1825-?)

Plates and illustrations, from various journals, collected by G. H. M. Addison. Each volume has its title on the spine.

[Item 1] Church architecture, plates from The British Architect 1886, 49 x 38 cm.
[Item 2] Public buildings, includes plates from The Building News, The Builder, The Architect, The British Architect, 1880 to 1887, 43 x 33 cm.
[Item 3] Architectural drawings, includes plates from The Building News, The Builder, 1888, 43 x 33 cm.
[Item 4 ] Churches, includes plates from The Building News, The Builder, American Architect and Building News, 1889, 43 x 33 cm.
[Item 5] Churches, includes plates from The Builder, The Building News, Architectural Illustration Society, 1888 to 1889, 43 x 32 cm.
[Item 6] Street architecture, includes plates from American Architect and Building News, The Builder, The Architect, 1889, 43 x 32 cm.
[Item 7] American architecture plates, includes plates from The Builder, American Architect and Building News, The Building News, 1891, 44 x 33 cm.

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres.