J.C. Davis - Davis Sporting Collection Part II: Further correspondence and other papers, 1894-1948

MLMSS 7752

series

1894 - 1948

Textual Records, Clippings

456686

3 boxes - 0.64 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (printed)
Clippings

I. CORRESPONDENCE FILES CONCERNING CRICKET

1914-1928; Letters from T.S. Ashley Cooper (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1895-1936; Correspondence File "B". Includes letters from Warren Bardsley, J.H. Bettington, E.A. Brooke, Jack Bridges, Harold Bushby, and Wendell Bill. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1933-1934; Correspondence concerning Bodyline. Comprises letters from readers of 'The Referee'. Includes a menu for a dinner given to the English Cricket team by the NSW Government on 23 Feb. 1933, signed by members of the English and Australian teams (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1930-1937; Letters from G.A. Brooking (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1918, undated; "Cricket History". Articles and other material including "Beginnings of Cricket in Australia", The First Team of Cricketers from Australia to visit England 1868", "My First Intercolonial Match Victoria v NSW". (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1928-1940; Correspondence concerning the Cricketers Club of NSW (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
undated; "First All England Team 1862." Anonymous account of the first tour of Australia by the English cricket team. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1927-ca. 1938; Correspondence File "H". Includes letters from Roger Hartigan and Halford Hooker (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1916-1948; Correspondence File "J-L". Includes letters from Charles Kelleway, Hammie Love, and letters concerning the careers of Frank Laver and Alan Kippax. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1928-1948; Letters from the NSW Cricket Association (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1915-20, 1940; Letters from M.A. 'Monty' Noble and letters concerning his death (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/1)
1925-1936; Letters from W.A. 'Bert' Oldfield (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1922-1930; Letters from L.O.S. Poidevin (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1911-1939; Queensland Cricket Association (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1927-1937; Letters from Sydney Smith (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1933-1938; South Australian Cricket Association (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1922-1940; Sydney Cricket Ground (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1915-1929; Correspondence File "T". Includes letters from Hugh Trumble and John Trumble (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1929-1934; Tasmanian Cricket (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1914-1931; Western Australian Cricket Association (Call No.: MLMSS 7752)
1939; Wisden (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/2)
1908-1940; Miscellaneous Cricket Correspondence 1. Includes letters from Albert Gregory, Sir Pelham Warner and an article about Victor Trumper. (Call No.: MLMSS 7552/2)
1916-1939; Miscellaneous Cricket Correspondence 2. Includes artices on the 1878 Australian team and K.S. Duleepsinhji. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1905-1933; Miscellaneous Cricket Correspondence 3. Includes a letter from Warwick Armstrong. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)

II. CORRESPONDENCE FILES CONCERNING VARIOUS SPORTS INCLUDING CRICKET, HORSE RACING, RUGBY UNION, RUGBY LEAGUE, BOXING AND ATHLETICS

1930-1937; Horse racing Correspondence. Includes a letter from Lance Skuthorpe. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1899-1902; Letters from Maurice Baldwin concerning Rugby Union (Queensalnd) (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1906; Letter from Blair Swannell enclosing two manuscript articles concerning his experiences in the Boer War. Swannell played rugby union for the British Lions in 1899 & 1904 and for Australia in 1905. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1921-1934; Correspondence concerning Rugby League. Includes letters Duncan Thompson and Harry Sunderland and letters concerning NSW country rugby league. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1915-1917; Correspondence File "U". Includes a letters from Don Urquhart written from Gallipoli on 31 October 1915. (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1915-1923; Correspondence File "W". Includes letters from S.R Walford concerning his son Dudley Walford who was serving in the A.I.F. (and whose war diary is held by the Library at MLMSS 982). (Call No.: MLMSS 7752/3)
1894-1940; Correspondence File containing letters and articles relating to cricket, golf, boxing, athletics.