Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1938-1944]. Includes newspaper cuttings, lists of candidates elected to membership of the club, reports on annual general meetings and annual dinners, annual reports and emergency committee meetings which replaced the regular committee meetings during the Second World War.
Items include:
A memorandum on MCC staff wages, 14 February 1938
Accounts for the Australian tour of 1936-1937, 31 March 1938
Recommendations of the finance Sub-Committee regarding the payment of professionals and the allowances to be given to amateurs and the manager on future tours to Australia, 1 June 1938
Notes of an informal discussion on points of common interest in regard to the playing and financial conditions of tours in England and Australia, 30 May 1938
Selection of Flight Lieutenant A J Holmes as manager for the MCC team to tour South Africa and to invite a team to tour South Africa with W R Hammond as Captain, 27 July 1938
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee appointed to enquire into the system of the issue of Rovers tickets, 10 January 1939
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee to consider and recommend in regard to the constitution of the Board of Control of Test Matches at Home, 9 January 1939
Report on clerical grades for Pavilion and Works staff, 13 February 1939
Minutes of a special meeting of the finance Sub-Committee discussing the agreement between Middlesex County Cricket Club to use the facilities at Lord's, 2 May 1939
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee appointed to consider the question of the Town Planning Scheme as affecting Lord's, 9 May 1939
Decision to invite T N Pearce to become Captain for the MCC team to tour India with Lieutenant Colonel C B Rubie as Manager, 28 June 1939
Revised agreement between Marylebone Cricket Club and Middlesex County Cricket Club to use the facilities at Lord's, 14 July 1939
Accounts for 1939
Newspaper cuttings highlighting changes to the rules regarding election of candidates due to the war, 11 April 1940
Refreshment department accounts for the year ended 31 December 1940
List of staff members at the outbreak of war for the committee to consider ex-gratia payments, 1941
Decision by Air Ministry to requisition Lord's, 7 July 1941
Accounts, 1941
Note by secretary on professional cricketers testimonials, 1942
Letter from E A Hutchison on behalf of the Director for Lands and Requisitioning to Marylebone Cricket Club relating to financial compensation for the Royal Air Force to use parts of Lord's, 10 April 1942
Refreshment Department Accounts for the year ending 31 December 1941
List of financial grants given to employees in 1941, October 1942