Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 35
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £160
Charles William Wright. Nottinghamshire, Cambridge University & England 1882-1899. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Wright on Saxelby Park, Melton Mowbray headed paper to a T.B. Milne. Dated 23rd February 1935, Wright states ‘I am very sorry but I gave up cricket 20 years ago owing to the loss of an eye and every atom of my cricket tackle was given away long ago to the village club’. Very nicely signed ‘C.W. Wright’. Light horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in very good condition.
Wright played his three Test matches for England on the 1895/96 tour to South Africa. He lost an eye in a shooting accident forcing his retirement from cricket.