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International Debutant
Over the course of a spot of research in which I was happily engaging myself today, I came across this most charmingly illiterate letter, written in 1880, from Billy Bates to the Todmorden Cricket Club:
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Lascelles Hall Hall
April 28/1880
Sir
I ham oping for engagments for the bowling [the "b" looks an awful lot like an "f"] dates and my terms is 30 per Match
Nameley
June [he crosses out July] 19 and 26
July = 10
Augst = 28
Yours Truly
W Bates
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Lascelles Hall Hall
April 28/1880
Sir
I ham oping for engagments for the bowling [the "b" looks an awful lot like an "f"] dates and my terms is 30 per Match
Nameley
June [he crosses out July] 19 and 26
July = 10
Augst = 28
Yours Truly
W Bates