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Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Original solid leather portmanteaux (large deep suitcase) with typed letter to inside of the lid dated 24th May 1965 with the following statement 'This portmanteaux, which was given to my father by Mr Harry Bishop, in about 1904, was passed on to me by my father, and has been in my possession ever since. Today I have filled it with a number of souvenirs of all sorts which have been accumulating in a 'bottom drawer' for some years and which some day, may be of some interest to anyone who goes through the contents.... signed Percy G.H. Fender. The portmanteaux contains a miscellany of items including his newspaper cuttings, with handwritten annotation from the Ashes series of 1928/29, posters for a Charity Cricket Match played at Horsham, Sussex in June 1939, photographic proofs of photographic images of the 1930 Ashes Test series for his book 'The Tests of 1930' with letter from Faber & Faber, proof print of two pages of the same book, his leather tobacco pouch with his raised wired initials 'P.G.H.F.' to centre and to sides, raised wired emblems of Surrey County Cricket Club and England (three lions and crown), letters regarding cricket in the Daily Telegraph 1977, photographs of 'The Old Hags' at Lord's 1961, team photographs featuring Fender and others in later years, cricket newspapers, election posters by Tom Webster for County Council elections in 1952 with Fender standing, his school reports from his time at St George's College, Weybridge 1902-1904, St Georges College school photographs 1904, cricket and sporting team photographs from St. Pauls School 1908-09 and 1909 featuring Fender (Captain of Cricket), small cricket scorebooks, a selection of individual original pencil highlighted with colour caricatures (rather naive) of leading cricketers including Jardine, Larwood, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Chapman, Freeman etc, each with the initials 'D.S.R.', Team photographs of the 'St Paul's School First Eleven 1908', 'St Paul's School Five Four 1910', both by photographers, Elliott & Fry and both featuring Fender, P.G.H. Fender's XI Sussex tour 1910, image faded but fully signed by the team including Fender, Surrey Eleven 1920 (Fender, Captain), Royal Air Force v The Rest of England, Eastbourne 1922 includes Woolley, Hobbs, Rhodes, Gunn, Gilligan, Tennyson, Carr, Fender, Gillingham, Haig etc, an original photograph of George Macaulay scoring the run which won the 2nd Test, M.C.C. v South Africa at Newlands, January 1923, a detailed handwritten wartime diary of his travelling from Melbourne in Australia to Leyte in the Philippines in April 1945, a further diary with details of trips to France in September 1948, Singapore in December 1948, Greece in December 1948 etc, personal and army correspondence, family, wedding and war-time photographs, a presentation personalised photograph album for the Coronation Naval Review at Spithead in May 1937, various University rowing programmes 1950, business correspondence and photographs, fuel ration cards, menus and booklets for the Saintsbury Club 1940/60's, some original newspapers on the death of Churchill in 1965, war-time newspapers etc. The portmanteaux has the remains of various shipping labels to its sides including Cunard etc. The general condition of the portmanteaux is very worn with some breaking to straps