Correspondence and telegrams relating to Middlesex County Cricket Club answered by the Honorary Secretary, R W V Robins. Subjects include ticketing and membership enquiries, requests for clothing and cricket equipment, request by Middlesex President Sir P F Warner for Arsenal Football Club to allow Denis Compton to play for Middlesex until the end of the 1937 season, copies of the annual report for 1936 and 1937, correspondence with Thomas Cook regarding travel arrangements for the 1937 season, letter from W J Edrich requesting permission to tour India with Lord Tennyson's XI in 1937-1938, samples of a Middlesex tie produced by R W Forsyth Limited, draft speech on the annual report for 1937 (possibly for P F Warner to read at the annual general meeting), copy of the Middlesex balance sheet for 1937, letter from W R Hammond requesting information on the number of matches he played in 1935 to assist with an income tax enquiry, letter from Warner to J H Human congratulating Human on his performance for Middlesex against Surrey at The Oval in August 1937 (Human made 74 not out in Middlesex's second innings, helping Middlesex win by 3 wickets, despite being hit in the chest by deliveries) negotiations with Essex County Cricket Club regarding the date of their fixture with Middlesex for the 1938 season, agreement for Middlesex to assist with a BBC broadcast from the nets at Lord's in April 1937, arrangements for a challenge match between Middlesex and Yorkshire to be played at The Oval in September 1937 and requests for funds from this match to be made available to charities, letter from Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club accepting Middlesex's request to register J T H Comber as a player in 1937, list of grants for Middlesex players' benefits in 1937, The file also includes correspondence answered by the MCC Secretary and Assistant Secretaries, a copy of the Royal Sailors' Orphan Girls' School Annual Report for 1937, a copy of the South-Eastern Hospital for Children Annual Report for 1936, copy of the annual report for the London Society for Teaching and Training the Blind dated 1935-1936, report of the Providence (Row) Night Refuge and Home for 1936, posters advertising the Middlesex County XI vs. Harrow District XV match in September 1937, a booklet of cricket records compiled by E L Roberts, statistics on the Australia vs. England Test Series in 1936-1937, and a Middlesex membership card for the 1937 season.
