File 25 - Biographical notes: Correspondence from Lord Rayleigh to Thomson's daughter Joan Charnock, re biography

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.