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NORMAN RAILING SCRAPBOOKS, 1916-1951
Three volumes, dated 1916-29, 1930-35 and 1936-51, large 4to., (29.2 x 23.5cm), each volume with approximately 200 pages of press clippings, menu cards, scorecards, letters and photographs relating to real tennis, rackets and the tennis career of Norman Railing, red morocco gilt, spines with gilt titles: "Tennis Rackets Squash Rackets etc., N.F.H.R."
These three volumes are Norman Railing's personal scrapbooks, documenting the game of tennis and rackets during his playing career. Extracts are taken from a variety of newspapers, magazines and journals, and include reports and accounts of public school, college and club tournaments. Included in vol. I is a signed dinner menu card, in honour of the British Squash Racket team before their departure to Canada and America, 17 January 1924, and a Tennis and Rackets Association dinner menu card, 5 May, 1924. A Jubilee Dinner menu for the Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club, 30 April 1926, is also inserted in vol. I along with the booklet, The Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club, 1876-1926, printed by George Falkner, Manchester, 1926, 8vo., in original printed wrappers (Henderson p. 209). Scorecards include the Amateur Squash Rackets Championship, 24 November 1924 (loosely inserted in vol I) and two for the M.C.C. Tennis Challenge Prizes, 1932 and 1933 (vol. II).
Among the correspondence is a manuscript letter to Norman Railing, dated "Manchester Tennis Racquet Club, dated 16-11-26," from C.J. Feldon who comments: "I sometimes feel I could give you a good game if you would give me 1/2 30". In another handwritten letter from Douglas Jardine, dated 15 November 1926, Railing is congratulated on winning the Old Public Schools' competition, Jardine commenting "I was more particularly pleased ... as you have always seemed to me a quite undeservedly unlucky games player".
Two manuscript letters from Peter Latham, dated 7 and 29 December 1947, are loosely inserted in vol. III, Latham writing of Peter Railing: "he has a long way to go, but is on the right lines". Loosely inserted with the two letters is a signed photograph of Latham, dated 1907, and a photograph showing Latham's hand, inscribed in the margin: "The hand that Rules the Racket wins the Game - Hand of Peter Latham after 63 years Racquets + Tennis".
A SIGNIFICANT RECORD OF REAL TENNIS AND RACKETS KEPT BY A LEADING PLAYER IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. (3)
Three volumes, dated 1916-29, 1930-35 and 1936-51, large 4to., (29.2 x 23.5cm), each volume with approximately 200 pages of press clippings, menu cards, scorecards, letters and photographs relating to real tennis, rackets and the tennis career of Norman Railing, red morocco gilt, spines with gilt titles: "Tennis Rackets Squash Rackets etc., N.F.H.R."
These three volumes are Norman Railing's personal scrapbooks, documenting the game of tennis and rackets during his playing career. Extracts are taken from a variety of newspapers, magazines and journals, and include reports and accounts of public school, college and club tournaments. Included in vol. I is a signed dinner menu card, in honour of the British Squash Racket team before their departure to Canada and America, 17 January 1924, and a Tennis and Rackets Association dinner menu card, 5 May, 1924. A Jubilee Dinner menu for the Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club, 30 April 1926, is also inserted in vol. I along with the booklet, The Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club, 1876-1926, printed by George Falkner, Manchester, 1926, 8vo., in original printed wrappers (Henderson p. 209). Scorecards include the Amateur Squash Rackets Championship, 24 November 1924 (loosely inserted in vol I) and two for the M.C.C. Tennis Challenge Prizes, 1932 and 1933 (vol. II).
Among the correspondence is a manuscript letter to Norman Railing, dated "Manchester Tennis Racquet Club, dated 16-11-26," from C.J. Feldon who comments: "I sometimes feel I could give you a good game if you would give me 1/2 30". In another handwritten letter from Douglas Jardine, dated 15 November 1926, Railing is congratulated on winning the Old Public Schools' competition, Jardine commenting "I was more particularly pleased ... as you have always seemed to me a quite undeservedly unlucky games player".
Two manuscript letters from Peter Latham, dated 7 and 29 December 1947, are loosely inserted in vol. III, Latham writing of Peter Railing: "he has a long way to go, but is on the right lines". Loosely inserted with the two letters is a signed photograph of Latham, dated 1907, and a photograph showing Latham's hand, inscribed in the margin: "The hand that Rules the Racket wins the Game - Hand of Peter Latham after 63 years Racquets + Tennis".
A SIGNIFICANT RECORD OF REAL TENNIS AND RACKETS KEPT BY A LEADING PLAYER IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. (3)
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