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Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Secretary to the Honourable Directors of the Sierra Leonne Company
Letters: 1
Date(s): 4 Mar 1809
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.1
Note: On Thomas Ludlam (1775-1810), TPT's predecessor as governor of Sierra Leone, and the agents of the Company. Draft. 4 pp.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Castlereagh, Lord
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Aug 1809
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.2
Note: In relpy to his letter of recall, and denouncing the agents of the Sierra Leone Company. Draft, unfinished. 3 pp. Recipient is Colonial Secretary.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Pryme, George
Letters: 10
Date(s): 22 Mar 1811 - 12 Jul 1866
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.3, 1.29, 1.32, 1.42, 1.48,
1.59, 1.75, 1.118-119, 1.121
Note: 1) On supporting Palmerston and the Duke of Gloucester in the elections. 4 pp. 2) Announcing the death of his daughter Lucy. 2 pp. 3) Comment on an appointment. 1 p. 4) On elections. 3 pp. 5) On political economy. 4 pp. 6) Invitation to call, and news of his son Charles. 3 pp. 7) On a gravestone in France, and the Free Traders, etc. 4 pp. 8)
On the grave of his brother Charles, at St Jean de Luz, France. 3 pp. 9) On M. Commamalle, the mayor of St Jean de Luz. 3 pp. 10) About Wycliffe's account (of the gravestone). 1p
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Barker, Revd Thomas
Letters: 13
Date(s): 20 May 1811 - 28 May 1867
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.4, 1.77, 1.80-81, 1.83,
1.114-117, 1.123, 1.133-135
Note: 1) On Benjamin West's painting of Christ. 4 pp. 2) On Epictetus. 4 pp. 3) On Greek quotations. 4 pp. 4) On organs. Incomplete, wanting end of letter. 4 pp. 5) Incomplete, wanting beginning and end. 2 pp. 6) Anecdotes about France in 1814. 5 pp. 7) On the anonymous "Ecce
Homo". 4 pp. 8) On nightingales, wolves in France, and opera. 5 pp. 9) On music, Greek, and wolves. 4 pp. 10) On the burning of Lord Wake's castle at Cottingham, 1541. 3 pp. 11) About Macaulay on Cowper, and spontaneous generation. 4 pp. 12) About his father, fearlessness, and family news. 4 pp. 13) About the visit of the Sultan of Turkey, and
Mohammedans. 4 pp. Recipient is brother-in-law of sender.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, Thomas
Letters: 2
Date(s): 10 Aug 1811 - 17 Aug 1823
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.5, 1.12
Note: 1) On the adventures of his brother Charles in Egypt. 6 pp. At end is note in Thomas Thompson's hand, 17 Aug 1811, about TPT's allowance. 2) Investments. 3 pp. Sender is father of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, Nancy (nee Barker)
Letters: 17
Date(s): 13 May 1812 - 23 Mar 1843
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.6-11, 1.13-21, 1.25, 1.30
Note: 1) About the assassination of Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister. 3 pp. 2) On theatre and museum visits. 3 pp. 3) On the actor Grimaldi. 3 pp. 4) News of himself on the way to Portsmouth with his regiment. 3 pp. 5) Personal news, on eve of departure for Spain. 3 pp. 6) Views on the war. 3 pp. 7) Political news. 3 pp. 8) On Macready, the actor. 3pp. 9) On a political meeting at Nottingham, and Daniel O'Connell, the
Irish politician. 4 pp. 10) About his son Charles, in Spain. 3 pp. 11) On Blanco White of the "London Review". 4 pp. 12) Political news. 4 pp. 13) About a politcal dinner. 4 pp. 14) On the report of the dinner, etc. 4 pp. 15) On a debate on the Corn Laws, etc. 3 pp. 16) On his recent political actions, etc. 3 pp. 17) About a comet. 8 pp. Recipient is wife of sender.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Whiteley, A.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 30 Jan 1838
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.22
Note: On his willingness to stand anywhere against the present government. Draft. 1 p. Recipient is an elector of Marylebone.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Hume, Joseph
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Feb 1838
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.23
Note: On Hume's conduct at the adoption meeting for the Marylebone contest. Draft. 4 pp. Hume is an MP.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Editor of "The Scotsman"
Letters: 1
Date(s): [Mar 1838]
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.24
Note: On the election contest at Marylebone.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, Anne Elise (called Lily)
Letters: 5
Date(s): 23 Jan 1839 - 18 Jul 1850
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.26, 1.31, 1.71-72, 1.74
Note: 1) On a journey by train, 1 p. 2) About her pet animals and birds, 4 pp. 3) About hedgehogs, 1 p. 4) Incomplete, wanting first leaf, 1 p.5) About music, and plays, etc. 2 pp. Sender is father of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, Thomas Perronet Edward
Letters: 9
Date(s): 1 Sep 1839 - 1 Oct 1855
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.27-28, 1.76, 1.78-79, 1.82, 1.85-86, 1.91
Note: 1) Written during the bye-election contest. 3 pp. 2) Instructions to forward letters. 3 pp. 3) About a misquotation in the "Bradford Observer". 4 pp. 4) Asking for a copy of the 1st edition of his "Catechism on the Corn Laws". 1 p. 5) Political advice. Incomplete, wanting end of letter. 2pp. 6) Asking him to ascertain the temperature
inside Beverley Minster. 3 pp. 7) War news. 4 pp. 8) On political and financial matters, and offering to exchange houses. 4 pp. 9) On the battle at Sebastopol, and shrimps, etc. Incomplete, wanting end of letter. 4 pp. Sender is father of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Wilson, George
Letters: 2
Date(s): 22 Dec 1845 - 30 Dec 1845
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.33-34
Note: 1) On Peel and the abolition of the Corn Laws. 4 pp. 2) On the Anti-Corn-League. 4 pp. Recipient is Chairman of the Anti-Corn-Law League.