Notes from lectures of F.-A.-H. La Rue (Notes sur la chimie organique) and J. Sewell (Pathologie interne: auscultation) taken by J. Ed. H. Poisson. Notebook in marbled wrapper (back wrapper wanting).

Notes from lecture of Jean Étienne Landry taken by L.B.[?] and presented to J. Sam. Poisson. Notebook is bound in marbled boards, leatherback (bit rubbed).

Notes from lectures of J. Sewell taken by J. Samuel Poisson. Notebook bound in marbled wrappers (rubbed; vol. I spine nearly splitting).

Notes from lecture of Jean Étienne Landry taken by J. Sam. Poisson. Notebook is bound in marbled boards.

License to practise Midwifery from the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

File consists of letters between John Bell, Robert Bell, Hon. John Young, and the Ministry of Militia regarding a property containing granite that was to be shipped to other parts of Canada. It appears that Robert and John Bell eventually withdrew from this venture.

Diploma, "Carolum Lewis," from the Regium Medicorum Collegium Edinburgense. Counterstamped 22/6/65 Branch Medical Council, Ireland.

Files 31-33 originally consisted of letters folded for filing tied in a bundle with string. The files consist of personal correspondence with family members and friends. Most letters have original docket titles referring to the correspondent of the letter.

Files 34-36 were originally organized into one folder entitled, “John Bell – Personal Correspondence (Family & Friends).” Letters in these files are sometimes arranged by person, with letters by one correspondent originally folded together. Correspondents include a cousin Mrs. James Walker, Robert Bell (including one letter discussing the clothes necessary for John to start his medical practice, 1866), Bell’s sister Mary, a relative Dr. W. R. Malloch, step-sister Eliza Wilkie, members of the Notman family, Bell’s step-brother Andrew Bell living at Pointe Fortune, Quebec, Bell’s mother, step-brother William, and a cousin George Bell.