Quidnuncs Cricket Club

Reference

RAFG/4

Date:

1861 - 1879

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Part of

R A Fitzgerald Scrapbooks (RAFG)

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, photographs and drawings compiled by R A Fitzgerald, relating to Cambridge Quidnuncs Cricket Club, poems, songs and plays written by Fitzgerald. Includes scores and reports of Quidnuncs matches, scorecard from the Cambridge Quidnuncs vs. Gentlemen of Sussex match at Box's Brunswick Cricket Ground in August 1862, reports on cricket matches at Lord's and meetings of the MCC Committee, newspaper articles relating to murder and divorce, copy of bill for the Quidnuncs dinner at Greenwich in 1862, photographs of Fitzgerald's friends and family, poem to the Queen written in German entitled 'To The Queen', photograph of the Quidnuncs team at Westdean in Sussex in 1865, photograph of the I Zingari team at Shoeburyness in 1874, photographs of Salzburg in Austria, drinking songs written by Fitzgerald in German in honour of his cousin, reports on tennis matches at Lord's, poems dedicated to Fitzgerald's wife, poem by Fitzgerald dedicated to his neighbour Violet Brett who was about to marry, thoughts by Fitzgerald on psychology and insanity, plot and synopsis for the play 'Haidee-Aida' by Ava Cavendish written by Fitzgerald, photographs, drawings and biography of the soprano Madame Marie Roze, menu card for an I Zingari dinner at the Trafalgar in Greenwich in 1874.

Associations

Robert Allan Fitzgerald
Quidnuncs Cricket Club
I Zingari
Marie Roze

Subject

tennis, poetry, plays, songs

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

French, German, English, Italian

Size

1 volume

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• R A Fitzgerald Scrapbooks (RAFG)
  
  • Quidnuncs Cricket Club (RAFG/4)