Correspondence relating to articles written by J A Bailey, MCC Assistant Secretary for publication in newspapers and magazines including 'The Cricketer'. Includes copies of a monthly column written by Bailey for The Cricketer magazine titled 'Lord's View', and letters from E W Swanton thanking Bailey for contributing to the magazine, responses by Bailey to articles published in Playfair Cricket Monthly, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, suggestions by Bailey for changes to the book 'The Art of Cricket' by Sir D G Bradman, suggestions by Bailey for changes to a book by J H Edrich on the MCC tour to the West Indies in 1967-1968, copy of an article by Raman Subba Row about cricket and business titled 'Cricket's Late Cut to the Leisure Market', copy of a chart showing the re-organisation of cricket administration in England after 1968, response by Bailey to R G Marlar's article in the Cricketer in 1969 relating to the cancellation of the MCC tour to South Africa in 1968-1969. The subjects covered in Bailey's articles include fielding, changes to the Laws of Cricket, the decision to drop D B Close as England captain in 1967, the England vs. Australia Test match in 1968, the MCC tour of Holland in 1968, the cancellation of the MCC tour to South Africa in 1968-1969, the introduction of Sunday Cricket and the John Player League, the England vs. West Indies Test match at Lord's in 1969, the South African tour of England in 1970 and demonstrations about the tour.
