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The papers in this collection are mostly those of J. J. Thomson, his wife Rose, and their children George and Joan. Papers of George's children John and David largely relate to biographies, commemorative events (particularly re the 1997 centenary of the discovery of the electron) and memorials to their father and grandfather, although a few personal papers of theirs are included.

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1: Letters to Rose Elizabeth Thomson, from J. J Thomson;
2-52: Letters to Rose Thomson from other friends and family, arranged chronologically
53-97: General correspondence of Rose Thomson. Chiefly letters of thanks for hospitality provided at Trinity College. The correspondents include scientists, academics, public figures and a few members of Lady Thomson's family.
98: Account book in the hand of Rose Thomson
99-100: Letters from Rose Thomson to her brother- in-law Frederick Vernon Thomson.

Included are letters from: Sir W. L. and Lady Bragg (B/96), Lady Betty Balfour (B/95), E. A. Benians (B/95), Evelyn Bosacawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/94), Anne Chamberlain (B/97), Sir William Scott Farren (B/96), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/97), P. B. Agate (B/97).

Included also at B/95 is a 4pp draft, in Lady Thomson's hand, of a speech on the history of Trinity College.

Included are letters from: Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour (B/91), Norman Hepburn Baynes (B/93), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/91), Dora Isolda Butler, Baroness Dunboyne (B/92), Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (B/90), John Traill Christie (B/90), Walter Durant Gibbs, 2nd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (B/92), [Ester Elizabeth?] De Labillière (B/92), Paul F. D. De Labillière (B/90), Sir Joseph Larmor (B/89), Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/90), General (later Field Marshall) A .P. Wavell (B/93).

Included are letters from Lady Betty Balfour (B/85), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/88), Anne Chamberlain (B/82), Walter de la Mare (B/83), Constance Elfrida de la Mare (B/83), Charles, 6th Baron Thurlow (B/84), Raymond Wilson Chambers (B/85), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay (B/84), A.E. Housman (B/86), Sir Cecil J. B. Hurst (B/84, B/85), Sir Louis Charles Jackson (B/82), Cosmo Gordon Lang (B/82).

Writes to express his sympathy, and that of his wife, with Nora on the death of Henry Sidgwick. Claims that he shall always count his friendship with Henry as one of the things he values most, and speaks of the fairness and unselfishness with which he dealt with every subject that came before him. Explains that his wife is not well enough to write herself.

Included are letters from Sir B. H. Liddell Hart (B/74), A. E. Housman (B/76, B/81), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/77), 3rd Earl of Leicester (B/81), Ernest de Selincourt (B/81), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/79), John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (B/77), Hilda Margaret Pickard-Cambridge (B/81), Lionel E. L. Charlton (B/81), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), George Stuart Gordon (B/78), Winifred E. L. Hawke (B/80), George Cecil Jaffé (B/77), Kenneth Escott Kirk (B/79), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Sarah Hamilton Lusk (B/75), Theodore Lyman (B/70), Francis John Lys (B/74), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/76, B/78, B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (B/78), Stephen Charles Neill (B/76).

Soft-backed black account book inscribed on first page 'R.E. Thomson Holmleigh West Road Cambridge'.

Soft-backed black account book inscribed on first page 'R.E. Thomson Holmleigh West Road Cambridge'.

Soft-backed black account book inscribed on first page 'R.E. Thomson Holmleigh West Road Cambridge: Accounts of Private and Personal Expenditure'

Soft-backed account book inscribed on first page 'Housekeeping Accounts at Portland House Dawlish'

Soft-backed black account book inscribed on first page 'R.E. Thomson 6 Scroope Terrace Cambridge removed to Holmleigh West Road Cambridge: Accounts of Private and Personal Expenditure'

Includes correspondence re Rose's 21st birthday in Mar 1881.

Re his visit to see 'Aunt Danny and the children'

Mostly re Wales.

Includes letter from Thomson's mother to Mrs Turnbull re Thomson's injured eye, 20 Oct 1875