Newspaper Cuttings and Scorecards

Reference

RAFG/2

Date:

1863 - 1878

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Part of

R A Fitzgerald Scrapbooks (RAFG)

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, correspondence and scorecards compiled by Fitzgerald. Includes newspaper reports of MCC matches and matches Fitzgerald played in for MCC, I Zingari, Quidnuncs, Utrera [Spain], Charleywood and Buckinghamshire, articles on lawn tennis, lists of winners of famous horse racing events, cricket song in memory of John Smith, obituary to Roger Kynaston, handbill for the 1869 Cricket Week of Amateur Theatricals, script for the play 'Epilogue' in 1873 which contained references to cricket, correspondence sent to Fitzgerald by Lord Lansdowne, reports on baseball tours of England in 1874 by the Boston Redstockings and Athletic Bluestockings of Philadelphia, which also included baseball at Lord's, articles on the death of Felix, doctor's notes on Fitzgerald's health, programme for the MCC vs. Paris Cricket Club match in April 1867.

The scrapbook contains scorecards from the following matches:

1864
MCC and Ground vs. County of Middlesex (Lord's), 13 of Kent vs. England (Lord's),

1867
Oxford vs. Cambridge (Lord's)

1868
Oxford vs. Cambridge (Lord's)

1869
Gentlemen of Kent vs. Gentlemen of Bucks (Gravesend)

1874
Nottinghamshire vs. MCC and Ground (Trent Bridge)

Associations

Robert Allan Fitzgerald
John Smith
Roger Kynaston
Lord Lansdowne
I Zingari
Quidnuncs Cricket Club

Subject

cricket in France, cricket in Spain, scorecards, baseball, Horse Racing, cricket plays, cricket poetry

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English, French

Size

1 volume

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