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Add. MS b/60/246-250
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Letters from Edward Maunde Thompson to William Aldis Wright, with one from T[homas] N[ichols] to Thompson
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- 4 May 1885-8 Mar 1886 (Creation)
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Several of the letters refer to Thompson's British Museum colleague T. N. Nichols' investigations into the shorthand alleged by William Squire to have been written by Cromwell. 60/248 is a letter from Nichols to Thompson, 11 Feb 1886, sent on by Thompson to Wright on 12 Feb 1886.
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- Thompson, Sir Edward Maunde (1840–1929), knight, palaeographer and librarian (Subject)
- Nichols, Thomas Nickle (1837-?1902) assistant secretary of the Natural History Museum (Subject)
- Squire, William (1809-1880) forger (Subject)
- Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Subject)