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A.C. MacLaren’s M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1922/23. Large scrap/ photograph album comprising a good selection of original photographs and book extract scorecards and cuttings relating to the tour. Over thirty photographs are laid down to pages with a further thirty five loosely inserted. Subjects include one of thirteen members of the touring party seated and standing on board ship, several candid and other photographs of various sizes depict matches in progress, charabanc and boat excursions, a view of the crowd at Sydney Cricket Ground (photograph torn), the team for the opening match of the New Zealand leg of the tour at Auckland, tour matches in progress at Temuka, Wellington, Nelson etc. The captain and vice-captain A.C. Maclaren (Lancashire, M.C.C. & England 1890-1923) and J.C. Hartley (Sussex, Oxford University, M.C.C. & England 1895-1926) feature heavily throughout, with other tour members including Percy Chapman, A.P. ‘Tich’ Freeman (Kent), W.W.H. Hill-Wood (Derbyshire), G. Wilson (Yorkshire), T.C. Lowry (Cambridge University & Somerset), H. Tyldesley (Lancashire) etc. A good number of photographs are captioned in pencil below, or to the verso of the loose photographs. Also loosely inserted is a two page handwritten letter to ‘Colonel Hartley’ who captained the M.C.C. team in the match v Manawatu, Rangitikei & Wairarapa at Palmerston North, 6th & 7th February, from T.A.B. Grant who captained the opposition. Dated 15th February 1923, Grant gives effusive thanks to Hartley for the ‘sportsmanship of your team & your good self’. Later album contents include a mounted team photograph slipped in of the other M.C.C. team of 1922/23 led by F.C. Mann that toured South Africa, and three large team photographs from the Free Foresters tour to Canada, comprising E.G. Teddy Wynyard and Hartley, who captained the two matches played in Philadelphia. Two photographs measure approx. 13”x10’, one smaller, with details in pencil to verso, wear to edges of one. Also to the rear of the album is a typed poem titled ‘I.Z. [I Zingari] v R.N. [Royal Navy]’ dated 21st June 1920, a signed note by Denis Compton dated 10th June 1951 etc. Given the contents of the album, this may have been Hartley’s personal memento of the tour, but this cannot be confirmed. Heavy wear to the boards, front cover and first few pages cleanly detached, lacking spine paper. Internally in good condition.