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Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, minutes and reports relating to tennis and rackets fixtures and matches at Lord's, compiled by R Aird, MCC Assistant Secretary. Includes the draw for the Amateur Tennis Doubles Championships in 1958, arrangements for the A H M Taylor Cup to be engraved with the name of W Holmes (1951 Champion), minutes of committee meetings of the Tennis and Rackets Association in 1938, 1939, 1951 and 1952, list of entrance money payments for the MCC tennis prizes in 1951, minutes of the MCC Tennis and Rackets Sub-Committee meeting in November 1951, list of winners of the MCC Gold Prize between 1870 and 1939, letter to the Tennis and Rackets Association confirming that the wages of tennis professionals would be increased in 1951, copy of letter by the Squash Rackets Association informing that they disapproved of the Squash Rackets Professional Association's decision to introduce a new type of squash ball, draw for the MCC vs. Prince's Club tennis match in November 1938, correspondence regarding the history of the A H M Taylor Cup, draft rules of all tennis competitions approved by the Tennis and Rackets Association, draw for the MCC vs. Queen's Club tennis match at Queen's in November 1938, report on a visit to Slazengers Factory in Barnsley in 1952 by E S Hawes of Charterhouse, table of annual expenditures for the tennis and squash courts, memorandum recommending that tennis players' wages be increased, memorandum for the treasurer on the case for and against reinstatement of a racket court at Lord's in 1952, proposal to install a Memorial Gallery on the site of the present rackets court, details of payments for exhibition matches at Lord's in 1937, draw and rules for the Professional Invitation Handicap in Brighton in 1938, draw for the MCC vs. Jesters match at Lord's in 1938, draw for the Prince's Club vs. MCC match at Prince's Club in February 1938, invitations for MCC to compete for the Bath Club Cup in 1938, handwritten description of the tennis court and history of the tennis court at Lord's, draw for the MCC Tennis Handicap in 1954, notes on the original connection between MCC and Lawn Tennis between 1875 and 1879, draw for the Professionals' Invitation Tennis Handicap (A H M Taylor Cup) in 1954, draw for the MCC Tennis Prizes in 1954, conditions for the Inter-Club Squash Rackets Invitation Tournament for the Bath Club Cup datred 1954, list of subscriptions for the H Johns vs. R Hughes challenge match at Lord's in 1954, draw for the MCC vs. Oxford University tennis match in October 1954, conditions for the first match of the World Tennis Championship at Holyport Tennis Club in October 1954.

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