Correspondence, postcards, newspaper cuttings, plans, invoices, handwritten notes and candidate forms relating to William Findlay, MCC Secretary. Subjects include Herbert Sutcliffe's decision to decline the invitation to go to South Africa with the MCC team in 1930, suggestion of allowing probationary candidates to play for MCC in outmatches, correspondence and plans by Trevor Building Equipment for a new style of wicket cover with a report on the idea from H E White, Ground Superintendent, purchases of cufflinks and cigarette boxes for members of the MCC tours to South Africa in 1930-1931 and New Zealand 1929-1930, with letters of thanks from the players who were part of the MCC teams, letter to MCC on behalf of First-Class County Captains registering a protest against MCC over rules made in county cricket without their approval particularly 'the new light ruling', acquisition, transfer and restoration of a portrait of Thomas Lord from his niece Florence Lord, letters from cricketers accepting the invitation to play against New Zealand at the Oval [in 1931], report on the visit of the MCC team to Jamaica in 1930, programme souvenir of the New Zealand tour to England in 1931 including lists of results and averages, letter from Findlay to the New Zealand Cricket Council thanking them for their hospitality during the tour to New Zealand [in 1929-1930], list of expenses paid for the New Zealand tour. The file includes correspondence belonging to Middlesex County Cricket Club.