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Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Letters: 32
Date(s): 2 Dec 1846 - 18 Feb 1868
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.35-36, 1.39, 1.41, 1.43-47,
1.49-58, 1.60-70, 1.73, 1.139
Note: 1) On his omission from the Brevet, etc. 4 pp. 2) On horses. 5 pp. 3) On learning Arabic. 8 pp. 4) On Arabic, and rifles. 4 pp. 5) Advice on rifles. 9 pp. 6) On learning Arabic, and on the purchase of a troop. 5 pp. 7) On the purchase of a troop. 4 pp. 8) About Arabic. Postscript for the House of Commons. 5 pp. 9) Political news. 4 pp. 10) Family news. End of letter dated 7 April, about Fergus O'Connor, the Chartist. 4 pp. 11) On learning Arabic. 3 pp. 12) On learning Arabic, and the building of the railway nearby. 3 pp. 13) About natural history, and the purchase of a rifle. 7 pp. 14) About rifles. 6 pp. 15) Family news, advice on rifles, French political news, etc. 4 pp. 16) About sea-serpents, and thermometers. 4 pp. 17) On trigonometry. 4 pp. 18) On rifles. On verso is unsigned addition in Nancy Thompson's hand. 2 pp. 19) Advice on rifles. 3 pp. 20) About rifles, and old soldier, etc. 4 pp. 21) Advice on rifles. 3 pp. 22)
Advice on rifles. 4 pp. 23) On shooting tigers. 2 pp. 24) On Indian banks, and natural history. At end are two pages from Nancy Thompson, on a cholera outbreak. 25) On Hawkins, Senior Officier of the Bombay Marine. At end
are a few lines from Charles William Thompson, JWT's brother. 4 pp. 26) About books on fortifications, and the cholera epidemic, etc. 4 pp. 27) On learning Arabic. 4 pp. 28) On hunting buffalo, and natural history. 4 pp. 29) On bison. 6 pp. 30) On financial matters. 4 pp. 31) On the purchase of a troop, and natural history. 4pp. 32) On the date of his brother's death. 1 pp.
Sender: Thompson, Anne Elizabeth (nee Barker)
Recipient: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Apr 1849
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.6
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: About books on ornithology, etc. At end are some lines from TPT
about the chaps on his Peninsular Medal. 4 pp. Sender is wife of TPT; recipient is her son.
Sender: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Recipient: Thompson, Thomas Perronet Edward
Letters: 10
Date(s): 25 Aug 1861 - 10 Dec 1865
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.53-62
Note: 1) About a fire at their grandfather's house at Cottingham. 4
pp. 2) On investments, guns, and dogs. 4 pp. 3) On his dog. 6 pp. 4) On obtaining a horse. 4 pp. 5) About investments, and making a will. 4 pp. 6) About his will. 4 pp. 7) On his journey to Newcastle. 2 pp. 8) On his journey to Newcastle. 2 pp. 9) Enclosing a message to Dr Williams. 2 pp. 10) On breaking a dog. Attached is copy of answers to his question in "The Field". 4 pp. Sender is son of TPT, and brother of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Recipient: Thompson, Charles William
Letters: 5
Date(s): 6 Sep 1869 - 18 Feb 1876
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.63, 2.65, 2.67-68, 2.70
Note: 1) On their father's death. 6 pp. 2) On various incidents in
their father's life. 10 pp. 3) Comments on his memoir of TPT. 16 pp. 4) Summary of TPT's ideas on currency. 7 pp. 5) On publishing a biography of their father; recommends Macmillan. 4 pp. Sender is son of TPT, and brother of recipient.
Sender: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Recipient: Curwen, Revd John
Letters: 2
Date(s): 20 Sep 1869 - 29 Sep 1869
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/2.64, 66
Note: 1) Offering his father's enharmonic organ. Draft. 2 pp. 2)
About renovating the organ. Draft. 3 pp. Sender is son of TPT; recipient is of the Tonic Sol-fa School.
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.
Sender: Bright, John
Recipient: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Sep 1869
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/3.10
Note: Condolences on TPT's death. 4 pp.
Sender: Curwen, Revd John
Recipient: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Letters: 2
Date(s): 9 Sep 1869 - 21 Sep 1869
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/3.20-21
Note: 1) On the enharmonic organ. 1 p. Attached is a note by JWT of
a letter he wrote to Curwen, 8 September 1869, on the organ. 2) Accepting the organ. 1 p. Sender is director of the Tonic Sol-fa School.
Sender: Mill, John Stuart
Recipient: Thompson, John Wycliffe
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Sep 1869
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/3.50
Note: Letter of condolence. 2 pp.