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.

Bell family correspondence, 27 letters, 1897 to 1923.

Photocopies of Bell family correspondence, 27 letters, 1897 to 1923.

Blue cloth bound album, “Sunny Memories” on top left-hand corner of cover, initials "K. J." at bottom right-hand corner of cover. Catherine Jane Ferguson married Charles Syndey Jones (1861-1896) on 28 Oct 1889 in Melbourne. They had three daughters: Ella Maud (born 9 Mar 1891), Enid Frances Sydney (born 31 May 1892) and Kate Elaine Sydney (born 27 Apr 1895, also known as Katie, Kit or Kitty). After the death of Sydney Jones, Catherine married Joshua Thomas Bell.

This album contains 194 photographs dated 1897 to around 1901. There are twenty pages. Photographs have been pasted to the inside and back covers of the album. First five pages have captions with dates (1897 to 1901) and initials [of photographer?]. There are photographs of the family, children, Mount Morgan, 'Kenmore' (residence of John Ferguson, in Rockhampton), Rockhampton botanical gardens, 'Killin' (now called Yungaba, residence built by John Ferguson for Catherine Janes Ferguson and her husband, solicitor, Charles Sydney Jones), the Grandstand at the Rockhampton race course.

From page five, the last captioned page, photogaphs are taken when Catherine and her children travelled to Lenzie, Scotland, and include photographs from the trip there, activities while overseas, and what appears to be photographs from the trip back to Australia.

The Sunny Memories album was produced by Percy Lund & Co. and allowed photographs or photographic scraps to be inserted into the album. It was produced from 1898.

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 ?]

Copies of outgoing correspondence from Marmaduke Alexander Thomas Bell (Duke),
• To his Uncle Marmaduke, 23 May 1896
• To his Uncle Marmaduke, 23 May 1896 (duplicate)
• To his Uncle Marmaduke, 28 Aug 1896
• To his Uncle Marmaduke, 10 Sept 1896
• To his brother in law Percy Kelly, 9 Jul 1899
• To his mother Frances Georgina Bell (nee Armstrong), 16 Oct 1905

Handwritten letters, most are addressed to 'My dear Collie' and signed 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'. There are two letters to Lady Bell from W. L. T Drew [?] regarding her financial situation.

Handwritten letters, most are addressed to 'My dear Collie' and signed 'your affectionate Mother, Margaret M. Bell'.

Black and white phototgraph on mounting board which appears to have been framed at some time (frame now removed). It shows the construction of the new railway bridge at Indooroopilly over the Brisbane River. The previous bridge had washed away in the 1893 floods. This photograph show crowds gathered to watch the hulk, Beatrice used on the Brisbane River to float another span on the Indooroopilly Railway Bridge. Like most material in this collection from this era, it was probably in the possession of Joshua Thomas Bell.

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