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Curator's correspondence (Stephen Green), photographs, notes, brochures, postcards, and newspaper cuttings relating to possible acquisitions for the MCC Collection. Subjects include Anthony Baer's pottery collection, facsimile copies of letters sent to John Loraine Baldwin, references to cricket in plays including 'You Should See Us Now' at the Greenwich Theatre in 1983, reports on a visit to Bristol Art Gallery, a menu card for a dinner at Hotel Metropole, Brighton on 1 September 1930 signed by the England team during the Australian tour of England in 1930, report on exhibits in the Pavilion of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, MCC fixture card from 1895, draft copies of the script of 'Serendipity - The First Test' by Tim Rice, newspaper reviews of the play 'Outside Edge', article by Doug Insole on cricket and jazz in 'Jazz Express' April 1983, enquiries regarding a letter that was sent by Donald Bradman to MCC regarding the leg before wicket rule [MCC/CRI/6/3/7/2] which Green believed had been lost. The folder includes the following photographs: Unknown cricket team, 1858 Anthony Baer's pottery collection The Cricket Match between the Gentlemen of England and the Montreal Cricket Club (Canadian Illustrated News, August 31 1872) The English Cricketers (taken at Toronto) from C J Ottaway's scrapbook at Brasenose College Library, Oxford Negatives of the 1872 tour taken from C J Ottaway's scrapbook at Brasenose College Library, Oxford Lord Frederick Beauclerk MCC Museum A visit to St. Peter's College [Adelaide] by members of the MCC touring team in 1920-1921 A cricket match between Sussex and Kent Cricket at Dulwich near London, 1745 Letter from Gilbert Jessop to W R Hobson Gingerbread Moulds Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond, by Hoppner Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond, by Dahl The Country Cricket Match by William Drummond Photographs of players on the MCC tour of India, 1933-1934: C J Barnett, M S Nichols, J Langridge, W H V Levett, A H Bakewell, R J Gregory, D R Jardine, H Verity, C S Marriott, C F Walters, H Elliott, J H Human.

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