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Correspondence acquired by F S Ashley-Cooper originally belonging to Reverend R S Holmes, cricket statistician. Subjects include requests by Holmes for photographs and cricket books answered by cricketers including E V Bligh, V E Walker, A G Steel, William Gunn, H H Stephenson, G G Hearne, R A Thoms and Tom Hayward, letters from Richard Daft and Daft's brother Harry enclosing results of single wicket matches, personal correspondence and information on cricket books, scores from the Charterhouse vs. Wellington College match in 1898, letter from MCC Secretary Henry Perkins asking Holmes for a list of cricket books he would be willing to sell to MCC as MCC had 'not much of a library', scores from the Charterhouse vs. RMC Sandhurst match in 1899, letter from Tom Sherman requesting financial assistance for his benefit and subscription list and team list of players participating in Sherman's benefit match, letter from George Pinder, secretary of the New United North of England Eleven in 1877, letter from Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1899 thanking Holmes for sending them 'enclosures', scores of matches between Charterhouse and Westminster Schools between 1891 to 1900 compiled by Holmes, letters from W Methven Brownlee, author of 'W. G. Grace: a biography' thanking Holmes for his contribution to the national testimonial for W G Grace, and personal correspondence from Charles Box, author of 'The English game of cricket', letter from Lord Londesborough thanking Holmes for the donation of books. The file also contains correspondence sent to Ashley-Cooper, including from MCC Secretary F E Lacey discussing the use of percentages to determine the winner of the County Championship, letter from Lacey enclosing a list of auditors of MCC from 1839-1913, information on F C Toone's testimonial issued by Yorkshire County Cricket Club which Ashley-Cooper subscribed to, membership forms issued by Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and handwritten scores from the following matches: 1790 MCC vs. Hornchurch, MCC vs. County of Essex 1791 Hants vs. Sussex, Essex vs. Hartford, Lord Barrymore vs. E. Bligh (single wicket match) 1795 Thursday Club vs. Kennington Club (Lord's) 1802 Hon G Lennox's Side vs. Mr G Leycester's Side (Lord's) 1825 Nottingham vs. Leicester

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