Correspondence, opinions, notices, newspaper cuttings, memoranda relating to the Sunday Times. Subjects include the issuing of a writ against the Sunday Times and Michael Parkinson for articles written by Parkinson criticising MCC, opinions relating to articles written about MCC and the D'Oliveira affair which MCC believed were defamatory, copy of notice served for the court case between Board of Control Test selectors D J Insole, A V Bedser, D Kenyon, P B H May and D B Close against Michael Parkinson and Times newspapers, copy of MCC's instructions to counsel regarding articles written on the D'Oliveira affair, correspondence between MCC and their solicitors Halsey, Lightly and Hemsley, copy of opinion relating to an article about S C Griffith in the Sunday Times in 1969, copy of articles written by Parkinson criticising the Board of Control Test selectors for dropping G Boycott from the England team and copy of an apology from Parkinson published in the Sunday Times, and whether B L D'Oliveira should be selected for the MCC team to tour South Africa in 1968-1969, letters from the selectors indicating that they would like to launch legal proceedings against the Sunday Times, correspondence from MCC members and county secretaries regarding the criticism of MCC from the Sunday Times.
