Telegrams sent by Ronald Aird, MCC Secretary, Harry Surtees Altham, Treasurer, and S C Griffith, Assistant Secretary. Subjects include congratulations to Frank Worrell and Richie Benaud, captains of the West Indies and Australia for the cricket played in the series between the two teams in 1960-1961, congratulations to Donald Bradman on becoming Chairman [of the Australian Board of Control for Cricket], congratulatory telegrams to winners of the County Championship, and telegrams relating to the MCC tour of West Indies in 1959-1960 including one sent to M C Cowdrey wishing him luck for the final Test Match, the MCC tour of Australia 1958-1959, South Africa 1956-1957, West Indies 1953-1954 including telegram sent to Len Hutton congratulating the MCC team on their victory 'in difficult circumstances', telegrams from the Australian Board of Control and South African Cricket Association expressing their sympathy regarding the death of Sir Henry Leveson Gower, telegram from the Australian Board of Control allowing the final day of the Fifth Test [England vs. Australia, 1953] to be increased to six days, telegram from Queen Elizabeth II thanking MCC for their sympathy. The file also includes attached correspondence with members of the Secretariat.