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Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, Edith
Letters: 40
Date(s): 19 Apr 1854 - 6 Sep 1868
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.84, 1.87-90, 1.97-113, 120,
122, 124-132, 136-138, 140-143
Note: 1) Invitation to dine. 1 p. 2) Enclosing letters from J.W. Thompson. 1 p. 3) About shrimps, etc., at the sea-side. 4 pp. 4) On sea-side fish. 4 pp. 5) On crabs and razor-fish. 4 pp. 6) About singing and dancing letters in Boulogne. 3 pp. 7) About his book "Just Intonation" and Signor Carulli, the Boulogne singing-master, etc. 2 pp. 8) About Boulogne. 4 pp. 9) About singing. 4 pp. 10) On a book about to be published, and Swift's "Directions to servants". 4 pp. 11) On grass-hoppers, snails, and places on the Isle of Wright. 4 pp. 12) Family news. 4 pp. 13) About singing lessons and his book. 4 pp. 14) About a remark of hers on American affairs. 1 p. With it is a note in ET's hand explaining allusions. 15) About singing lessons, his organ, and frogs. 4 pp. With it is a note in ET's hand explaining allusions. 16) About astronomy. 5 pp. 17) About Roman Catholics, a crocodile, and family news. 4 pp. 18) About his book "Just Intonation", the
Boulogne museum, and earthquakes. 4 pp. 19) About a passage in the "Edinburgh Review". 1 p. 20) About the singing class at Jewin Street. 4 pp. 21) On a monument to two Danish soldiers at Beverley, etc. 5 pp. 22) About Miss Northcote at Jewin Street. 2 pp. 23) About singing lessons with Signor Lablanche. 2 pp. 24) About songs, and Vergil's "Aeneid". 3 pp. 25) On Sydney Smith, "Just Intonation", and a magistrate at Bow Street. 6 pp. 26) On Sydney Smith, etc. 5pp. 27) About a hunt ball, geese, and ships. 4 pp. 28) On a ball-dress, and birds. 4 pp. 29) On ancient stones at Cottingham, fox-hunting, and woodcuts. 4 pp. 30) On stamps, geese, and a fire at the Zoological Gardens. 3 pp. 31) On a translation by Lord Derby, fox-hunting, and meteors. 6 pp. 32) On meteors, pepper, and Jewin Street. 3 pp. 33) On scorpions, Glastonbury, the atmosphere. 4 pp. 34) About plants. 3 pp. 35) Enclosing Hannah Adams' remarks on the five points distinguishing
Calvinists from Arminians. 2 pp. 36) On the Fenians. 4 pp. 37) On the Fenian troubles, capital punishment, and an anecdote about two Yorkshiremen. 6 pp. 38) About Bridlington in the Civil War, wasps and hornets. 4 pp. 39) About the Methodists at Cottingham, John Bright, and Jewin Street. 2 pp. 40) On the Methodist Chapel in George Yard, George Hall. 1 pp. Sender is grand-father of reipient, by his daughter Ellen.
Sender: Thompson, Charles William
Recipient: Thompson, Edith
Letters: 9
Date(s): 14 Aug 1881 - 8 Dec 1893
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.16-24
Note: 1) On hymn-tunes. Postcard. 2) On copying letters. 4 pp.
3) Translating Spanish phrases, and about TPT. 3 pp. 4) On
people mentioned in TPT's papers. Postcard. 5) About books,
and enclosing an official copy of the register of TPT's baptism
(which is attached). 4 pp. 6) On courts-martial. 2 pp. 7)
About regimental dinners, and the battle of Chillianwallah. 8)
On TPT's majority in the army. Postcard. 9) Thanking her for
a photograph, etc. Postcard. Sender is TPT's son.
Sender: Thompson, Charles William
Recipient: Thompson, Edith
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Feb [18]92
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.25
Note: On a Perronet anniversary in Canterbury. 3 pp. Sender is TPT's grandson.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: Thompson, Thomas Perronet Edward
Letters: 1
Date(s): [6 Aug 1856]
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.26
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: An example of copybook script. 4 pp. Sender is daughter of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: Thompson, Charles William
Letters: 5
Date(s): 11 Jan [18]72 - 27 May 1874
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.27-31
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: 1) Answering questions relating to allusions in TPT's letters
to her. 27 pp. 2) About Vincent Perronet, etc. 4pp. 3)
About Wesleyan soldiers. 2 pp. 4) On Vincent Perronet, Browning, TPT, etc. 8 pp. 5) On John Wycliffe, Vincent Perronet, and family news. 8 pp. Sender is neice of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: Cameron, Revd J.H.L.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 May 1884
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.32
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Asking for a search to be made in the parish registers. Draft.
2 pp. Recipient is Vicar of Shoreham, Kent.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: [Thompson, John Wycliffe]
Letters: 1
Date(s): [c.1884 - 1890]
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.33
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Posing several questions on incidents in TPT's life. Incomplete;
wanting beginning. 10 pp. Sender is neice of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: Lee, Sidney
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Oct 1893
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.34
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Notes on Vincent and Edward Perronet for the forthcoming DNB
articles. Draft. 4 pp. Recipient is Editor of DNB.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: Hunt, Revd William
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Oct 1894
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.35
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: On Vincent and Edward Perronet. Draft. 4 pp.
Sender: Thompson, Edith
Recipient: Robinson, H.J.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Feb 1899
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.36
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: About his offer to write a biography of TPT. 2 drafts. 4 pp.
Sender: Thompson, Ellen M.
Recipient: Thompson, Edith
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Feb 1881
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.51
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: News of visits, etc. 3 pp. Sender is TPET's wife, and mother of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Recipient: Thompson, Edith
Letters: 9
Date(s): 28 Jan 1875 - 5 Apr 1887; 2 n.d.
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.69, 2.71-78
Note: 1) On Macmillan (her publisher), historical questions, and a
Methodist dragoon, John Haine. 10 pp. 2) On publishing his
father's letters. 5 pp. 3) Mainly on the art of war. 2 pp.
4) On politics. 2 pp. 5) Answering questions about his father. 8 pp. 6) About Alphonse Daudet, the Reform Bill period, military arts, and his father. 10 pp. 7) Answering several questions on natural history, etc. 8 pp. 8) Answering questions on military pickets. Incomplete, wanting beginning. 16 pp. 9) Answering the questions she posed in no.2/33. Probably enclosed with a covering letter which is wanting. 14 pp. Sender is TPT's son, and uncle of recipient.