Biographical papers

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54 Career, honours, and awards: Memorabilia re Thomson's installation as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge File 5 Mar 1918
61 Career, honours, and awards: Telegraph from Sir Robert Hadfield congratulating Thomson on receiving an unidentified honour at the University of Paris Item 3 Jun 1927
62 Career, honours, and awards: Letter, invitation and certificate re Thomson's honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh File 16–25 Oct 1930
63 Reference number unused Item
65-67 Career, honours, and awards: Letters of congratulation on Thomson's 80th birthday File 26 Nov - 30 Dec 1936
70 Career, honours, and awards: Letters of sympathy to Lady Thomson re Thomson's death File 30 Aug 1940–29 Apr 1941
71A Career, honours, and awards: Typescript speech by Richard Whiddington re Thomson's career Item n.d
74 Certificates: Honorary Membership of the National Academy of Science, USA Item 22 Apr 1903
80 Certificates: Honorary Degree, Georg-August-University, Göttingen Item Dec 1905
81 Certificates: Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, University of Aberdeen Item Sept 1906
85 Certificates: Honorary Membership of the Società Reale di Napoli Item 31 Aug 1911
87 Certificates: Honorary DSc, Royal Society of Science, Göttingen Item Dec 1911
96 Certificates: Honorary D.Sc., University of Pennsylvania Item 1923
101 Certificates: Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Edinburgh Item c 1930
102 Certificates: Honorary degree, Athens Item 19 Apr 1937
105 'J.J. on Education': Manuscript copy [?] of articles appearing in the Times, 4-8 Dec 1920, on the question of university education for women Item [Dec 1920?]
123 Press cuttings: Article re J.J. Thomson entitled 'Our Portrait', The Gownsman Item 21 Oct 1909
127 Press cuttings: Reviews of Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analyses File Jan-Oct 1914
129 Press cuttings: Including press cuttings re the British Inventions Board File May-Nov 1915
130 Press cuttings: Including press cuttings re Thomson's Royal Institution Lecture entitled 'Radiations from Atoms and Electrons' File 1916-1917
133 Press cuttings: Including material re Thomson's Franklin Gold Medal from the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia File 27 Jul 1922
143 Press cuttings File undated
146 Financial: Account book inscribed on front cover 'Joseph J. Thomson Esq.' Item 1880-1889
147 Financial: Household receipts File 1880-1904
148 Financial: Receipts File 1895
152 Financial: Correspondence re Stocks and Shares File 1930-1936
154 Photographs: J. J. Thomson, taken for the Royal Society Item 30 Nov 1921
159 Photographs: Thomson and the bust by Derwent Wood Item [1923?]
172 Letter inscribed 'To my old students' from H. Roscoe Item 22 Apr 1904
176 Booklet of Open Days held in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir J. J. Thomson Item 14-15 Dec 1956