1 A3 envelope of photocopied items

Envelope of photocopies of articles from The Field, The Country Gentlemen's Newspaper, relating to tennis between 1867 and 1887. Subjects include reports on varsity matches between Oxford University and Cambridge University, reports on matches at Lord's including the MCC Challenge Prizes, and matches involving J M Heathcote, George Lambert, John Tompkins, William Lambert, J T Fennell, T Pettitt, Alfred Lyttelton, Charles Saunders, R D Walker and Edmund Tompkins, articles questioning why Lord's does not have a lawn tennis court despite MCC's involvement in writing the rules of the game, copy of the laws of lawn tennis compiled by MCC, articles on playing tennis by Julian Marshall, titled 'The Annals of Tennis', articles on matches at Hampton Court, articles on the maintenance of the tennis court at Lord's, history of single and double matches held at Lord's from 1859, reports on the Gold and Silver Racquet prizes.

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