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Item reference: THM/115-118
Catalogue section: Personal collections
Level: FILE
Date made: 1798 - 1816
Creator: Family, Thompson
Credit: On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from a private lender

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    • Series of letters from W Windham, Navy Office, 1807 and undated (Manuscript) (THM/115)
    • Folder of letters to Thompson, 1806-1815 include the Honorable George Grey, Thomas Lavie about his appointment as Commissioner of Antigua, 1807, and a letter about the death of Sir Samuel Hood in Madras (Manuscript) (THM/116)
    • Certificate presented to Thompson for the Freedom of the City of Gloucester after the Battle of the Nile, 1798, and Freedom of the City of Rochester, 1808, together with accompanying letters (Manuscript) (THM/117)
    • Documents relating to Thompson's being a Member of Parliament for Rochester including letters from Lord Melville, Mulgrave and Sir Charles Hope, also newspaper cutting and printed anti-election bill 1816. (Manuscript) (THM/118)
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