Legacy

Reference

MCC/AAL/2/TEMP431

Date:

1948-07-10 - 1986-04-23

Level of description

file

Extent

2 folders

Part of

department correspondence and papers (MCC/AAL/2)

Scope and Content

Curator's correspondence (Diana Rait Kerr, Stephen Green) relating to items donated to MCC by relatives of deceased cricketers and personalities. Subjects include the donation to MCC of Sir Bernard Eckstein's book 'Cricket An Heroic Poem', decision by MCC to commemorate Sir William Gowers in the Museum following a financial contribution by his wife Winifred, donation of a miniature clock with the case made from the timber of David Harris' cottage bequeathed to MCC by Claude Buckingham, offer to MCC of trophies that belonged to A P F Chapman, disposal of pictures donated to MCC by C M Wells, donation of a bat to MCC by Major Robert Edwards that was presented to W G Grace by the MCC Secretary in 1869, list of items bequeathed to MCC by H S Altham.

Associations

Diana Mary Rait Kerr
Stephen Edgar Alexander Green
Arthur Percy Francis Chapman
Harry Surtees Altham

Subject

donations, acquisitions

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Requires permission of MCC Chief Executive and Secretary before access.

Language

English

Size

2 folders

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