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Curator's correspondence (Adam Chadwick), newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to requests for information and research enquiries. Subjects include correspondence with His Honour Judge A Bradbury regarding the placing of white roses around Hedley Verity's grave, letter of congratulations to Natalie Belbin winner of the MCC Christmas Card competition in 2006, history of Newark Cricket Club and the Lord's scoreboard which Newark had owned from 1969, gift to MCC of a copy of 'A History of Hampton Hill 1855-2005' from M J Crane, gift of Middlesex scrapbooks from Tony Compton, gift of documents relating to the Sheffield and Manchester Railway and Clergy Orphan School from Reverend John Ridyard and Reverend Adrian Dorber, gift of a postcard of Len Hutton from A Ellerby, letter to Anna Ford, Chancellor of the University of Manchester, proposing to loan the Simon Collection for an exhibition on archery at Lord's, offer of a portrait of Sir Henry James, First Lord James of Hereford, MCC President in 1889, to MCC, gift of 'Pavilions in the Park' by Alf Batchedler to MCC from Stephen Gough, Chief Executive Officer of Melbourne Cricket Club, letter to Geoff Griffen asking if he had any items of memorabilia that he would like to donate to the MCC museum commemorating his hat-trick at Lord's for South Africa vs. England in 1960, invitation to a presentation on the Eyre Estate Archive by The Eyre Estate, gift of Lawrence Toynbee's sketch of Fred Trueman by The Right Honorable Lord Hutchinson, letters to A R Lewis and Jack Russell thanking them for their participation in the MCC Audio Archive project, letter from The Right Honorable Sir John Major asking to visit the library to perform research on MCC in the nineteenth century, donation of a Kodak Cricket Club tie from Ian Pitt, agreement for MCC to pay for packing and shipping costs incurred in the loan from Christie's of a picture by L S Lowry, return of items loaned to Scarborough Museum for their 'Local Heroes' exhibition, gift of the book 'Poet Fishing' to the MCC Library from Colin Shakespeare, gift of a Norfolk County Cricket Club report to MCC from S Skinner, gift of the Schools' Cricket Almanac from Grenville Simons, gift of 1973 W G Grace stamps from S J Wild, letter to Michael Vaughan thanking him for agreeing to sit for his portrait.

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