J.C. Davis - Davis Sporting Collection Part II: Correspondence and other papers, 1879-1958

MLMSS 7209

series

1879-1958

Textual Records, Clippings

421847

8 boxes - 1.44 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (printed)
Clippings

The Davis Sporting Collection Part II was largely compiled by John Corbett Davis who was editor of The Referee, The Arrow & The Sunday Times from 1912 to 1939. Other compilers were his brother Joseph J. Davis and his son Vincent C. Davis.

This collection mainly comprises letters received by J.C. Davis as editor of the Referee together with a few copies of letters sent.
CORRESPONDENCE FILES PART 1 - Cricket, rugby union, rugby league, swimming, athletics, tennis etc. Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
1916-1947; B-E. Correspondents include: Don Bradman (1933-39), Herbert Collins (1916-19), Jack Crawford (1935), Joe Darling (1937), H.V. Evatt (1937) and Mary Davis (1916) concerning the Mitchell Library's purchase of books belonging to her late husband, J. J. Davis . (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/1)
1907-1940; F-K (including material concerning Major-General Bernard Freyberg). Correspondents include: Jack Fingleton (1938), Albert Gregory (1919), Clem Hill (1917-36), Cecil Healy (1915), George Hele (1935), Halford Hooker (1934), Frank Iredale (1915). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/2)
1904-1940; L-M. Correspondents include: S.P. Jones (1936), Tom Lawton (1932), H.H. Massie (1935-37), Arthur Mailey (192?), E.S. Marks (1914-20), Edgar Mayne (1939), H.M. Moran (1911), A.G. Moyes (1921-40). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/3)
1914-1937; G-S. Correspondents include: Charles Kelleway (1915-18), Sir Robert Menzies (1934), M.A. Noble (1933), Tom Richards (1909-10), Garnet Portus (1908-27), Arthur Postle (1915-18), Vernon Ransford (1921), Sydney Smith (1921-22), Bert Oldfield (1935). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/4)
1922-41; S-W. Correspondents include: Jack Steggall (1937), Harry Sunderland (1920-40). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/5)
CORRESPONDENCE FILES PART 2 - Mainly cricket. Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
1906-1921; A-M. Correspondents include Warren Bardsley (1912-13), Herbert Collins (1913), Syd Gregory (1912), Frank Iredale, Roger Hartigan (1909), Charles Kelleway (1912-18), Edgar Mayne (1908-11), Roy Minnett (1910-11), Arthur Mailey (1914). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/6)
1906-1912; N-W. Correspondents include Les Poidevin (1907-19), Sydney Smith (1907), W. Baldwin Spencer (1910), Albert Trott (1907), E.F. & E.L. Waddy (1906-12). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/7)
CORRESPONDENCE FILES PART 3 - Mainly cricket. Includes lists of cricket and other sporting books. Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
1921-1938; A-W. Correspondents include A.G. Moyes, Frank Burge (1924). (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/7)
MATERIAL CONCERNING THE SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND
1879-1935; Includes memoirs and letter of H.H. Massie; Epitome of history from 1851 to 1878 by S.H. Fairland; Rules & Regulations; Fixture Lists; Newscuttings; Opinion of Sir Julian Solomons; Photographs; Various reports. (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/8)
PUBLISHED MATERIAL
1894-1958; Includes 'Chronicles in Cartoon' from The Windsor Magazine; English Women Cricketers, 1958; England v. Australia, 1905; Cricket and Sporting Literature, 1919-20; Great Public Schools of NSW Annual Regatta, 1900; Queensland Cricket Association Annual Report, 1894-95; South Australian Cricket Association Annual Reports, 1905, 1908, 1914. (Call No.: MLMSS 7209/8)

Author/Artist entries:
Bardsley, Warren, 1882-1954
Bradman, Donald, Sir, 1908-2001
Burge, Frank
Collins, H. L. (Herbert Leslie), 1889-1959
Crawford, Jack, 1908-
Darling, Joe, 1870-1946
Davis, Mary
Evatt, H. V. (Herbert Vere), 1894-1965
Fingleton, J. H. (John Henry), 1908-1981
Gregory, Albert
Gregory, Sydney Edward, 1870-1929
Hartigan, Roger Joseph, 1879-1958
Healy, Cecil, -1918
Hele, George Alfred, 1891-
Hill, Clem, 1877-1945
Hooker, Halford, 1898-1982
Iredale, Frank, 1867-1926
Jones, Samuel Percy, 1861-1951
Kelleway, Charles, 1889-1944
Lawton, Thomas, 1889-1978
Mailey, Arthur
Marks, Ernest Samuel, 1872-1947
Massie, Hugh Hamon, 1854-1938
Mayne, Edgar Richard, 1884-1961
Menzies, Robert, Sir, 1894-1978
Minnett, Roy Baldwin, 1888-1955
Moran, Herbert M. (Herbert Michael), 1885-1945
Moyes, A. G. (Johnnie)
Noble, M. A. (Montague Alfred), 1873-1940
Oldfield, W. A. (William Albert Stanley), 1894-1976
Poidevin, Leslie
Portus, G. V. (Garnet Vere), 1883-1954
Postle, Arthur Benjamin
Ransford, Vernon Seymour, 1885-1958
Richards, Thomas James, 1887-1935
Smith, Sydney, 1880-1972
Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929
Steggall, John Cecil, 1909-1985
Sunderland, Harry
Trott, Albert Edwin, 1873-1914
Waddy, E. F., 1880-1958
Waddy, Edgar Lloyd, 1878-1963

The Mitchell Library also holds the printed books, pamphlets, newscuttings and photographs of the Davis Sporting Collection Part 2.
See also CY 4421, frames 1-638 (Davis Sporting Collection Part 2, Box 115) for a preservation microfilm copy of manuscript indexes (4 vols.: 1890-94, 1913-1918) to 'The Referee', Sydney NSW, newspaper.
See also MLMSS 5908.