Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams and speech notes relating to Ronald Aird, MCC Secretary. Subjects include invitations to garden parties at Buckingham Palace, nominations and lists of members to serve on the sub-committees, notification of principal and Sub-Committee meetings, comments on matches at Lord's and MCC tours, playing conditions for the Australian tour of England in 1956, correspondence with R T Stanyforth discussing MCC no longer using St George and the Dragon on their clothing, notes for President Field Marshal Earl Alexander for his speech at a dinner at Surrey County Cricket Club in December 1955, letter to members of the main committee regarding changes to Law 26, letters to members asking them to become part of the principal committee for MCC, memorandum on the status and responsibility of the Chairman of the MCC Cricket Sub-Committee, letter to principal committee asking them if they support the decision for F G Mann to manage the South African tour of 1956-1957. The file also includes correspondence with S C Griffith, Assistant Secretary of MCC.