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 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.

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.

Handwritten letters, some are to 'My dear Collie'. One is signed 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'.

Handwritten letters, from and to Colin (Coly on some letters) Bell.

Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell from various people, except his mother, Margaret Miller Bell, from 1894 to 1933

Four letters (two handwritten and two typescript). Correspondents include John Bostock, Joshua P. Bell and someone (signature indecipherable) from Dalgety and Company, regarding the recommendation of Colin Basil Peter Bell for the job of manager at Ayrshire Downs.