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Compilation of cricket correspondence, memoranda and reports compiled by MCC. Includes memoranda regarding the function of the Hornsby Professional Cricketers Fund Charity, 'Cricket in Hot Climates' document issued to the MCC team prior to their tour of Australia in 1954-1955, agenda for a meeting of I Zingari in December 1959, fixture list and list of I Zingari candidates in 1960, memorandum regarding the rules for Honorary Cricket Membership of MCC, notes on financial arrangements for tours between England and Australia, table of payments given to the MCC touring party on tours between 1946 and 1955, papers relating to a Special Advisory Sub-Committee meeting to consider nominations for the MCC Committee in 1960-1961, paper on the question of whether benefits for professional cricketers are taxable, minutes of the first meeting of the MCC President's Fund Committee in February 1958, minutes of a meeting of representatives of MCC and the National Union of Journalists in 1958 to discuss disciplinary action taken against cricketers who write books and articles without permission, agenda for a meeting of the MCC Press Sub-Committee in October 1959, quotations for J G Dunbar and S C Griffith's pensions in 1959, pension reports for members of MCC staff in 1959, rules of the MCC President's Fund, minutes of a meeting between MCC, South African Cricket Association and the Board of Control for Cricket in Australia to discuss Law 26 (the dragging of the back foot by bowlers over the bowling crease) and the itinerary for future MCC tours to Australia, instructions for the use of practice nets at Lord's, memorandum on the election to MCC of overseas cricketers, letter from F G Mann requesting that Middlesex play a home County Championship match at Lord's in early July, copy of declaration sent to the Board of Trade by MCC indicating printing work carried out during the 1949 season, copy of letter from the MCC President (Duke of Norfolk) to the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan commenting on allegations that MCC had 'cold shouldered' the Pakistan team when they arrived in England prior to their tour of the West Indies in 1957-1958, list of proposals for an enquiry into the welfare of first-class cricket, paper of ideas for a county cricket knock-out competition, timeline of P F Warner's life and career compiled by S C Griffith.

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