Bound volume, minutes of Middlesex County Cricket Club Committee, 1901-1934. Includes minutes of Annual General Meetings, list of resignations of Middlesex members prior to and due to the First World War, list of members in arrear due to the First World War, printed copies of the Annual Report, officers of the club, receipts and expenditure from 1914-1933, newspaper reports on the Annual General Meeting, minutes of Advisory County Cricket Committee meetings, copy of agreements with MCC for expenses and Members' privileges, minutes of finance, young players and selection sub-committees.
Items include:
Agreement to support MCC's suggestion to alter the Laws of Cricket with the widening of the bowling crease, artificial preparation of wickets and illegal bowling, 20 January 1902
Agreement to present medals to players who helped Middlesex win the County Championship in 1903, 19 November 1903
Letter from A J Webbe, Middlesex Honorary Secretary, to Abe Bailey, discussing A E E Vogler's decision to leave England to play cricket in South Africa which violated the terms of his contract with Middlesex, 28 August 1906
Discussion of payments to F A Tarrant's benefit and Tarrant's decision to play cricket in India in 1914, 15 September 1914
Report that matches had been provisionally arranged for 1915 despite the war, 1 December 1914
List of Middlesex County Cricketers serving with His Majesty's Forces, 15 December 1915, 14 December 1916
Draft accounts for Middlesex in 1916 compiled by W A Browne and Co., Chartered Accountants, 26 October 1916
Discussion of a suggestion whether County Championship matches could be played on Saturdays and holiday days, 5 December 1917
Decision to place a Middlesex War Memorial at Lord's, 24 June 1919
Request for P F Warner to obtain estimates for medals to be presented to members of the team which won the County Championship in 1920, 4 October 1920
Letter to Mrs S S Pawling expressing sympathy on the death of her husband who was Treasurer of Middlesex County Cricket Club, 8 February 1923
Decision of the Committee to not play against Yorkshire in 1925 owing to 'alleged unseemly behaviour on the part of some of the members of the Yorkshire XI' in a match between Middlesex and Yorkshire in 1924, 16 July 1924
Minutes of a meeting to accept Yorkshire's apology and agree to play against them in 1925, 8 August 1924
The minute book contains a scorecard from a match at Lord's between Sir Pelham Warner's XI and the Club Cricket Conference, played on 17 August 1940, a copy of an autograph sheet from the MCC tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1946-1947 signed by the MCC team.
