Curator's [Diana Rait Kerr] correspondence relating to exhibition loans 1955-1956. Subjects include:
Request for loan of items including an Ashes replica urn from Desmond Eagar [Secretary, Hampshire Cricket Club] for an exhibition in the Bargate Guildhall Museum in Southampton in connection with the Mayflower celebrations 1956
Inventory list of paintings, balls and objects loaned to the Hampshire County Cricket Club
Transport of exhibits from London to the Bargate Museum in Southampton by James Bourlet & Sons Ltd
Loan of boots of Don Bradman with condition they are displayed alongside text by Pelham Warner from Bradman’s 1930 book “Don Bradman's Book: the story of my cricketing life, with hints on batting, bowling and fielding”
Request for loan of items from E G Gordon [Publicity Department, Associated Newspapers Limited] for a sport exhibition commemorating the Daily Mail Jubilee
Loan of a bat of W G Grace for the Daily Mail Diamond Jubilee Exhibition held at Olympia in March 1956
Inventory list of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs loaned the Usher Gallery for the Lincolnshire Lindum Cricket Club Centenary Exhibition at the Usher Gallery
Newspaper cuttings from the Lincolnshire Echo and Sheffield Telegraph relating to the Lincolnshire Lindum Cricket Club Centenary Exhibition