Excerpts from a draft family history by Angus M Thomson, great nephew of James Thomson, MA

• Reference:GB 248 DC 286/1/2
• Dates of Creation:Apr 1990
• Name of Creator:
  Angus M Thomson
• Physical Description:
  28  typed pages

• Scope and Content

  Extracts are principally about James Thomson, including his academic achievements at the University of Glasgow from 1864-1876; transcriptions of six surviving letters to James Thomson's parents when he visited Heidelberg in Germany prior to his early death of pulmonary tuberculosis in Badenweiler in the Black Forest; transcriptions of letters from The Principal of the University of Glasgow, John Caird, and Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edward Caird.