Lot 536
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GRACE, W. G. -- An autograph postcard of 7 lines, signed, from [Clifton, Bristol], July 12th 1895, to J. Robertson Walker, stating: "Many thanks for enclosure which I received all right. Also for congratulations. Yours in haste, W.G. Grace."

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GRACE, W. G. -- An autograph postcard of 7 lines, signed, from [Clifton, Bristol], July 12th 1895, to J. Robertson Walker, stating: "Many thanks for enclosure which I received all right. Also for congratulations. Yours in haste, W.G. Grace."

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The congratulations may be on Grace's score of 288 in the match against Somerset, played at Bristol May 16-18, in which he scored 288, "his hundredth three-figure score in important cricket." However, nearer the date of his letter, he scored 118 playing for the Gentlemen against the Players at Lord's, July 8-10, his first 100 for the Gentlemen since 1876.

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