Guide to the Collections held by the Marylebone Cricket Club (as filmed by the AJCP), 1859-1988

Summary

Collection number:

M2401 - M2412

Creator:

Marylebone Cricket Club

Extent:

125 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Archive collection 1859-1955 comprising diaries, notes, lists of matches, cuttings, photographs, correspondence, menus and printed ephemera relating to cricket matches and tours of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and England. There are diaries of George Anderson (1863-64), Edward Grace (1864), Vernon Royle (1878-79) and Reginald Foster (1903-04).

Autograph letter collection 1897-1956, including letters of P.A. McAlister, M.A. Noble, William Ponsford, F.R. Spofforth, G.H. Trott, Hugh Trumble, J.W. Trumble and William Woodfull, many of them written to Ashley-Cooper.

Score books of Australian tours of England and MCC/England tours of Australia and New Zealand between 1882 and 1988.

Biographical / Historical:

Private cricket club based at Lord's ground in London. Formed in 1787, it soon revised the laws of cricket and it remains responsible for the laws. From the late nineteenth century until 1969 it set up bodies to administer county and Test cricket and also organised major overseas tours by English players.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn776589] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Marylebone Cricket Club, Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Road, London.

For further information see Marylebone Cricket Club Archives at Lord's Cricket Ground (https://apps.lords.org/lords/tours-and-museum/museum/our-departments/mcc-archive/).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the Marylebone Cricket Club, Lord's Cricket Ground. For more information visit MCC Archive [https://apps.lords.org/lords/tours-and-museum/museum/our-departments/mcc-archive/].

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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