Dossier 28 - Biographical notes: Correspondence to Thomson's daughter, Joan Charnock

Includes a letter from the Institution of Electrical Engineers re a talking film made by Thomson for their film collection, 5 April 1948. Also includes a letter from the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge re the acquisition of Thomson's correspondence for their archives, 8 November 1951, 7 February 1952.

A/23-A/31 comprise biographical correspondence and papers found together. The bulk of this material was originally assembled by Lord Rayleigh whilst writing his biography The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson O.M. sometime master of Trinity College, Cambridge, published in 1942 by Cambridge University Press. There is also a little material added later by the family.

See also A/12.