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Curator's correspondence (Stephen Green) and newspaper cuttings relating to Green's attempt to create a list of manuscript material relating to the history of cricket in repositories and record offices. Includes lists of cricket references catalogued at the National Register of Archives obtained by Green after a visit to the NRA on 14 February 1969, information from the Historical Manuscripts Commission regarding references to cricket material from the seventeenth century, lists of cricketing material held at Northamptonshire Record Office, extracts from the MCC Minutes relating to the purchase of Henderson's Nursery from the Clergy Orphan Corporation at the request of the Clergy Orphan Corporation, information about the history of the Clergy Orphan Corporation from the Headmistress at St. Margaret's School, references to cricket from 1798 in Dorset Record Office, references to nineteenth century cricket in the National Library of Wales, copy of article written by Green for The Cricketer magazine on the Nursery End at Lord's, purchase of a xerox of a 1671 Sessions Roll that mentioned cricket from Surrey County Council, copy of a reference to cricket in Gibraltar in 1800 from the Government Secretariat in Gibraltar, information from the library at Brasenose College, Oxford regarding the 1872 tour of North America, references to men being prosecuted by the Church Courts in 1668 for playing cricket on a Sunday courtesy of Lambeth Palace Library.

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