Class A - Personal material and correspondence

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THMJ I/A

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Personal material and correspondence

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  • 1906-1962 (Creation)

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Includes correspondence relating to Trinity College (often responses to invitations to give the Clark Lecture), and a 1923 film of Thomson being 'welcomed by Bell Telephone Engineers and escorted through their laboratories at the Western Electric Co., New York' (A/13).

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THMJ II/B: A much larger quantity of personal material, including: family and other correspondence of J. J. Thomson and his wife Rose, and a small quantity of that of his son and daughter George and Joan, as well as of other relatives; Rose's diaries and other notebooks; accounts, and photographs.

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