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Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Albert Craig. ‘England v Australia, at Lord Sheffield’s Picturesque County Seat’. His Lordship, with his usual unbounded generosity, grants free admission to the General Public. Monday May 8th 1893’. Original broadsheet poem entitled ‘The Opening Struggle’. ‘Let us hope this opening struggle, will so entertain and please, that you’ll live to talk it over, when you’re seated at your ease’. Printed by Mitchell Jackson of Woolwich. The poem laid down to card and appears to have been cut from a scrapbook. Light horizontal fold to centre otherwise in good condition. Rare