A signed manuscript letter from the Corinthians and England football captain Charles Wreford-Brown dated 9th April 1893, in response to an enquiry, an

A signed manuscript letter from the Corinthians and England football captain Charles Wreford-Brown dated 9th April 1893, in response to an enquiry, and detailing his sporting achievements at Oxford University and Charterhouse School, and his trip with Lord Hawke's team to America in 1891; sold with a printed photographic portrait (2) Charles Wreford-Brown has been credited for coining the word soccer, but this claim lacks any hard documentary evidence. He was also a county cricketer for Gloucestershire. He captained the England football team on two occasions v Wales in 1894 and 1895, when the team was wholly comprised of amateur players. not illustrated