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Secretary's (Colonel Rait Kerr) and Curator's (Diana Rait Kerr; Stephen Green) correpsondence relating to picture research and restoration. File contains document titled “Restoration of pictures, 1954-5”, four copies of a document titled “William Rice: information supplied by Sir Owen Morshead and others” compiled by the Curator (Diana Rait Kerr). Subjects include correspondence between Colonel Rait Kerr, Sir Owen Morshead (Librarian, Windsor Castle) and A F S Blunt (University of London Courtauld Institute of Art) regarding the date of production of a painting titled “A village cricket match in 1768” by Louis Belanger which appeared in Country Life magazine, Curator’s (Diana Rait Kerr) correspondence with R Vallance (W Hodder & Sons) regarding quotations for restoration, cleaning and repair of 12 pictures and Curator’s (Stephen Green) correspondence with Professor A Smart, co-author of the book “John Player art of cricket” relating to the MCC being mistakenly attributed as the owner of five paintings in his book.

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