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Scrapbook of items relating to William Gunn, Nottinghamshire cricketer. Includes correspondence and telegrams sent to Gunn, scorecards of matches Gunn played in, newspaper reports from matches Gunn played in and profiles of Gunn, photographs, poems about Gunn, cricket songs, invitation cards, cartoons, committee badges. Subjects include averages for Notts Castle Cricket Club in 1880, a list of mock cricketing rules drawn up by Nottinghamshire for matches against Lancashire in 1883-1884, poems commemorating Gunn's performances against Australia, letter from Alfred Shaw asking if Gunn would play for Earl of Sheffield's XI against Australia in 1893, photographs of Gunn with W G Grace, menu card for a dinner at the match between the Australian XI and Earl of Sheffield's XI in 1893, articles on Gunn's work as a director with Notts Football Club [Notts County], letter from K S Ranjitsinhji completing Gunn's manufacture of cricket bats [Gunn co-found Gunn and Moore cricket bat makers in 1885], articles on the history of Notts County Football Club, articles on a German tank which toured Nottingham in January 1918 during the First World War. The scrapbook contains scorecards from the following matches Gunn played in: 1880 MCC and Ground vs. 22 Colts of England (Lord's), Colts of Nottinghamshire vs. Colts of Yorkshire (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Lancashire (Old Trafford), Nottinghamshire vs. Yorkshire (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Lancashire (Trent Bridge), Over Thirty vs. Under Thirty (Lord's), Surrey vs. Nottinghamshire (The Oval), Nottinghamshire vs. Gloucestershire (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Middlesex (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. MCC and Ground (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge) 1881 Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), Over Thirty vs. Under Thirty (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Lancashire (Old Trafford), Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge), Sussex vs. Nottinghamshire (Hove), Nottinghamshire vs. Gloucestershire (Trent Bridge), MCC and Ground vs. Yorkshire (Scarborough) 1882 Nottinghamshire vs. Yorkshire (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge), MCC and Ground vs. Leicestershire (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Yorkshire (Sheffield), Nottinghamshire vs. Gloucestershire (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Middlesex (Trent Bridge), Gloucestershire vs. Nottinghamshire (Clifton College), Alfred Shaw's XI vs. Australia (The Oval), MCC and Ground vs. Yorkshire (Scarborough), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge) 1883 Notts County Eleven vs. 22 Colts of the County (Trent Bridge), MCC and Ground vs. Nottinghamshire (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Gloucestershire (Trent Bridge), Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire vs. England (Bradford), Nottinghamshire vs. Middlesex (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), Gloucestershire vs. Nottinghamshire (Cheltenham), Nottinghamshire and Lancashire vs. England (Scarborough), T Emmett's Eleven vs. R G Barlow's Eleven (Holbeck) 1884 Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge), Kent vs. Nottinghamshire (Mote Park), Sussex vs. Nottinghamshire (Hove), Nottinghamshire vs. Yorkshire (Trent Bridge), Surrey vs. Nottinghamshire (The Oval), MCC and Ground vs. Northamptonshire (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge), North of England vs. Australians (Trent Bridge), Yorkshire vs. MCC and Ground (Scarborough), Smokers vs. Non-Smokers (Lord's) 1885 Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), MCC and Ground vs. Yorkshire (Lord's), Surrey vs. Nottinghamshire (The Oval), Nottinghamshire vs. Middlesex (Trent Bridge) 1886 Middlesex vs. Nottinghamshire (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Gloucestershire (Trent Bridge), Lancashire vs. Nottinghamshire (Old Trafford), Nottinghamshire vs. Kent (Trent Bridge), Australians vs. England (Park Avenue, Bradford) 1887 Nottinghamshire vs. Kent (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Middlesex (Trent Bridge) 1888 All-England Eleven vs. Trinity College (Dublin), Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Kent (Trent Bridge), England vs. Australians (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge), England vs. Australians (Old Trafford), Australians vs. Lord Londesborough's XI (Scarborough) 1889 North vs. South (The Oval), Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), North vs. South (Lilywhite's Benefit, Chichester), Gentlemen vs. Players (Surrey), North vs. South (Old Trafford), Liverpool and District vs. Notts County (Aigburth), Nottinghamshire vs. Kent (Trent Bridge), Yorkshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Sheffield), North vs. South (Scarborough) 1890 Nottinghamshire vs. Sussex (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge), Australians vs. Players (Lord's), England vs. Australians (Lord's), Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby), MCC and Ground vs. Northumberland (Lord's), Nottinghamshire vs. Australians (Trent Bridge) 1891 Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge), Cambridge University vs. MCC and Ground (Fenner's), Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby), North vs. South (Edgbaston). Sussex vs. Nottinghamshire (Hove), Kent vs. Nottinghamshire (Tonbridge), Yorkshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Sheffield), Gentlemen vs. Nottinghamshire (Scarborough) 1892 Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge) 1893 MCC and Ground vs. Sussex (Lord's) 1894 Gentlemen vs. Players (Lord's), Kent vs. Nottinghamshire (Mote Park), Sussex vs. Nottinghamshire (Hove) 1896 MCC and Ground vs. Sussex (Lord's), Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby), Yorkshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Huddersfield) 1897 Nottinghamshire vs. Yorkshire (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Derbyshire (Trent Bridge) 1898 Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby), Gentlemen vs. Players (Lord's), Yorkshire vs. C I Thornton's XI (Scarborough), Surrey vs. Nottinghamshire (The Oval) 1900 Nottinghamshire vs. Gloucestershire (Trent Bridge), Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby), Nottinghamshire vs. West Indies (Trent Bridge), 1902 Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby), Gloucestershire vs. Nottinghamshire (Gloucester) 1903 Sussex vs. Nottinghamshire (Brighton), Nottinghamshire vs. Surrey (Trent Bridge), Nottinghamshire vs. Leicestershire (Trent Bridge), Derbyshire vs. Nottinghamshire (Derby).

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