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PYCROFT, James -- A COLLECTION OF 3 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND A SIGNED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH, the letters addressed to Spencer Ponsonby and signed "James Pycroft." The first letter 2½pp. on blue paper, 8°, from The Lion, Brighton, 6 February [?1862], remarks: "Some time since I sent you a copy of the 'Cricket Field' for your kind jottings down and annotations," and expresses concern that, because "I am called on by my Publishers so suddenly for Copy for the 4th Edition," it may be difficult to receive the annotations in time. "Still if you have anything ready I shall be much obliged," Pycroft continues. "I have found an earlier notice of Cricket than ever yet discovered by anyone else as you will see in the new edition -- played by residents at Antioch in Syria! in 1675." He asks for an enclosure to be forwarded to "Charles Taylor ...somewhere near Southampton," and mentions that Sir. J Ponsonby -- author of the Ponsonby Family -- read my cricket story in Elkerton Rectory and lent it to S.
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PYCROFT, James -- A COLLECTION OF 3 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND A SIGNED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH, the letters addressed to Spencer Ponsonby and signed "James Pycroft." The first letter 2½pp. on blue paper, 8°, from The Lion, Brighton, 6 February [?1862], remarks: "Some time since I sent you a copy of the 'Cricket Field' for your kind jottings down and annotations," and expresses concern that, because "I am called on by my Publishers so suddenly for Copy for the 4th Edition," it may be difficult to receive the annotations in time. "Still if you have anything ready I shall be much obliged," Pycroft continues. "I have found an earlier notice of Cricket than ever yet discovered by anyone else as you will see in the new edition -- played by residents at Antioch in Syria! in 1675." He asks for an enclosure to be forwarded to "Charles Taylor ...somewhere near Southampton," and mentions that Sir. J Ponsonby -- author of the Ponsonby Family -- read my cricket story in Elkerton Rectory and lent it to S. Brother with my remembrances" (lower section cut away from second leaf, probably blank). In the second letter, one page on blue paper with integral blank, 8°, from 27 Gloucester Gardens W., May 17. 1865, Pycroft asks Ponsonby to "forward 'Cricketana' posted herewith to S. Brother if he is not in town when you have looked at it." He has published "nothing very new -- only the paper supplied by me to 'London Society' which Longman has bought of the editor and republished with my assistance ...." In the final letter, 1½pp. with integral blank, 8°, with crest of the Brighton Union Club, dated June 26 [?1872], Pycroft thanks Ponsonby for information, and speaks of his intention "to dedicate a 6th edition of my 'Cricket Field' to the Zingari as Charles Leigh tells me I may do. That much new ...."; together with an albumen photograph, laid down on notepaper with a shell crest, the paper signed and inscribed "James Pycroft Author of the 'Cricket Field'" (7¼ x 4½in; 18.5 x 11.5cm. including mount). (4)

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PYCROFT, James -- A COLLECTION OF 3 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND A SIGNED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH, the letters addressed to Spencer Ponsonby and signed "James Pycroft." The first letter 2½pp. on blue paper, 8°, from The Lion, Brighton, 6 February [?1862], remarks: "Some time since I sent you a copy of the 'Cricket Field' for your kind jottings down and annotations," and expresses concern that, because "I am called on by my Publishers so suddenly for Copy for the 4th Edition," it may be difficult to receive the annotations in time. "Still if you have anything ready I shall be much obliged," Pycroft continues. "I have found an earlier notice of Cricket than ever yet discovered by anyone else as you will see in the new edition -- played by residents at Antioch in Syria! in 1675." He asks for an enclosure to be forwarded to "Charles Taylor ...somewhere near Southampton," and mentions that Sir. J Ponsonby -- author of the Ponsonby Family -- read my cricket story in Elkerton Rectory and lent it to S. Brother with my remembrances" (lower section cut away from second leaf, probably blank).

In the second letter, one page on blue paper with integral blank, 8°, from 27 Gloucester Gardens W., May 17. 1865, Pycroft asks Ponsonby to "forward 'Cricketana' posted herewith to S. Brother if he is not in town when you have looked at it." He has published "nothing very new -- only the paper supplied by me to 'London Society' which Longman has bought of the editor and republished with my assistance ...."

In the final letter, 1½pp. with integral blank, 8°, with crest of the Brighton Union Club, dated June 26 [?1872], Pycroft thanks Ponsonby for information, and speaks of his intention "to dedicate a 6th edition of my 'Cricket Field' to the Zingari as Charles Leigh tells me I may do. That much new ...."; together with an albumen photograph, laid down on notepaper with a shell crest, the paper signed and inscribed "James Pycroft Author of the 'Cricket Field'" (7¼ x 4½in; 18.5 x 11.5cm. including mount). (4)
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The first edition of Pycroft's The Cricket Field was published by Longman in 1851. These letters, referring to the fourth edition (1862) and sixth edition (1873), reveal not just the author's pride in the book but the care with which he prepared later editions for the press. The autobiographical Elkerton Rectory was first published by Booth in 1860, and followed by another edition, containing a new chapter, in 1862. Cricketana, first published in book form in 1865, originally appeared as a series of letters in London Society in 1863-64.