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Curators (Diana Rait Kerr; Stephen Green) correspondence relating to the Ashes urn. File contains three copies of a pamphlet titled “The story of the Ashes”, list titled “Items being taken by J.R.S. to Australia”, document titled “The history of modern cremation in Great Britain from 1874” received from R N Arber (Secretary, The Cremation Society of Great Britain”, photocopy of letter from Ivo Bligh to Mrs Fletcher, newspaper cutting of article titled “Now a new scandal brews – at MCC”, transcription of document titled “History of the Ashes” by Lady Darnley 1932, photocopy of article “A spark in The Ashes” from magazine The Cricketer August 1982, copy of newspaper cutting “Ashes can’t be those of Aboriginal cricketer” from The Age 19 February 1987, photocopies of two letters from Jack Massie to Chappie in which he describes Fred Spofforth addressing W G Grace “in the best Australian vernacular” during the 1882 Test. Subjects include external requests for information relating to the Ashes, letter from Mrs Judith Paszek enclosing article by her brother J W Fletcher on Victor Trumper which was published in the Brisbane newspaper Sunday Mail, Curator’s (Diana Rait Kerr) correspondence with The University of Leicester (G Stansfield, Lecturer, Department of Museum Studies) and B Judd-Fiske (Artistic & Industrial Fibre Glass Products) regarding the production of a plaster or fiberglass replica of the Ashes urn, loan requests for Ashes urn replicas, request from the Australian Cricket Board to consider transporting the Ashes urn to Australia for the 1978-1979 England Australia Test series, requests made for photographs of the Ashes urn directed to Patrick Eagar, proposal for a luncheon to commemorate the centenary of the Ashes, decline of offer from Harwell Analytical Services to analyse the contents of the Ashes urn, decline of request from Richard Sissons to view the Gowrie letters, speculation that Ashes urn may contain ashes of Aboriginal cricketer King Cole, transport arrangements for the Ashes urn loaned to Australian Bicentennial Test Match Committee 1988, letter from Mrs Olive Martin enquiring as to whether the stand for the Ashes urn made by her husband Austin was still in use.

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