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.

Correspondence, photographs, notes, newspaper cuttings, relating to the Moffatt/Bell family vault at Ipswich Cemetery (burial site for Thomas Bell (ca. 1798-1872), Mary Isabella Moffatt (nee Bell) (1826-1866), John Alexander Bell (ca. 1829-1901), Ipswich Racecourse, and ‘Maryville’, the first home of Joshua Peter and Margaret Bell.

Photocopies, newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to Jimbour House: Copy of ‘The imperfections of the great’, Mar 1978. --
Newspaper cuttings, 2009 to 2010. -- Copy of photograph of tombstone. -- Photocopies of newspaper cuttings. -- Dedication booklet for the Deborah Russell garden. -- Brochure of ‘Jimbour a walk through history’. -- Information sheets. -- Photocopy of photograph of Jimbour Station. -- ‘The Great wall of Jimbour: heritage and the cultural landscape’, from Public history review, vol 12, pp. 103-110, 2006. -- Printout of Friends of Jimbour – Jimbour e-Newsletter, Sep 2009.

This files includes: correspondence, notes, newspaper cuttings, 'Order of Service ... on the 125th anniversary of the famly of The Hon Sir Joshua Peter Bell commencing residence in Jimbour House 7 April 2002', and 'Order of proceedings' for the cellar door opening on 7 April 2002.

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

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.