Original Documents

A collection of documents relating to Edith Thompson’s stay at Holloway, the original catalogue of the 1923 auction of her home, the graves at Brookwood and in the City of London Cemetery, birth, marriage, and death certificates, copies of the exhumation licences, the annual Requiem Mass, and various items of correspondence, including an interview with Charles Carlton of Carlton & Prior

Document and Correspondence Scans

: Avis and her mother see Edith at Holloway

: Holloway Prison family visitors 1922

: Canon Palmer (‘Pelham’) visits Edith at Holloway

: Death certificate, Holloway, 9 January 1923

: Freddy’s letter about Edith to a friend, family member, or even his mother, 8 January 1923. The restaurant may be the Holborn Restaurant.

: A letter to his sister (?) by Freddy Bywaters, written sometime after the trial

: Edith’s wedding ring, 9 January 1923, Holloway

: Edith’s fur coat, hat, and 45 letters 12 January 1923, Holloway

: Holloway Prison graves before the women were moved in 1971

: Graves at Holloway Prison in 1971

: Auction Catalogue 1

: Auction Catalogue 2

: Auction Catalogue 3

: Auction Catalogue 4

: Auction Catalogue 5

: Auction Catalogue 6

: Auction Catalogue 7

: Auction Catalogue 8

: Auction Catalogue 9

: Auction Catalogue 10

: Auction Catalogue 11

: Auction Catalogue 12

: Auction Catalogue 13

: Auction Catalogue 14

: Holloway exhumations 1971 B

: Holloway exhumations 1971 report

: City of London grave 1923, ownership; now Edith’s and her parents’ grave

: Assignment of City of London grave to René Weis, 2012

: Grant to René Weis of burial licence, City of London grave, 2012

: Licence for transfer of the women’s remains
from Holloway to Brookwood Cemetery

: 1985 deed of grant of Brookwood grave to René Weis and Audrey Russell

: 1990 note to author regarding Brookwood grave

: 1986 H M Prison Service note to author regarding details of Edith Thompson’s transfer to Brookwood

: Requiem for Edith Thompson A, St Barnabas, Manor Park (A)

: Requiem for Edith Thompson, St Barnabas, Manor Park (B)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (1)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (2)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (3)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (4)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (5)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (6)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (7)

: Edith Thompson Funeral Service, 22 November 2018, City of London Cemetery (8)

: Avis Graydon 1973 letter to Audrey Russell A

: Avis Graydon 1973 letter to Audrey Russell B

: Avis Graydon 1973 letter to Audrey Russell C

: Note regarding relatives of women in Holloway cemetery

: HOLLOWAY > BROOKWOOD reburial and relatives A

: HOLLOWAY > BROOKWOOD and not marking Brookwood grave

: Styllou Pantopiou Christofi exhumation licence © René Weis

: Annie Walters exhumation licence © René Weis

: Amelia Sach exhumation licence © René Weis

: Edith Thompson exhumation licence © René Weis

: PPV 12376.k and Edith’s lost letters and photo: René Weis > Bill Waddell (10 March 1985)

: Edith’s lost letters and photograph in the Prison Commission archives and PPV (Prisoner’s Property Voucher) Bill Waddell > René Weis (18 March 1985)

: The missing Holloway Prison ledger and Edith’s ‘lost’ letters.

: Visiting Pentonville Prison in 1985 (Governor > René Weis)

: Edith Thompson post-mortem

: F A Stern, Edith’s solicitor (The Law Society , 4 November 1983)

: Barrington Matthews, solicitor for Freddy Bywaters

: Margery Fry on meeting Edith Thompson at Holloway

: Lost ledger of Holloway Prison

: René Weis > Audrey Russell (19 March 1984)

: Audrey Russell on writing about Edith Thompson (3 April 1984: > René Weis)

: René Weis > John Clifford Lee (12 March 1984) A

: René Weis > John Clifford Lee (12 March 1984) B

: John Clifford Lee, on Avis Graydon (23 March 1984) A

: John Clifford Lee, on Avis Graydon (23 March 1984) B

: John Clifford Lee, on Avis Graydon (23 March 1984) C

: 9 January 1985 memorial service for Edith Thompson at St Francis Priory

: Harold Pinter to René Weis, regarding his poem ‘Ghost’ and Edith Thompson

: René Weis to D J T Dally of Brookwood Cemetery (24 November 1983) A

: René Weis to D J T Dally of Brookwood Cemetery (24 November 1983) B

: Note from Ludovic Kennedy, regarding the July 1983 abolitionist meeting in the Palace of Westminster

: Note from Michael Foot regarding the 1983 Commons vote on the death penalty

: Note from Roy Jenkins’s office regarding the 1983 Commons vote on the death penalty

: Note from Jane Ewart-Biggs regarding the 1983 Commons vote on the death penalty

: Note from Dick Taverne regarding the 1983 Commons vote on the death penalty

: Letter by René Weis to Sidney Paget regarding the 1983 Commons vote on the death penalty

: 1988 Letter by F White of Carlton & Prior to author

: Edith Thompson’s’s mother’s birth certificate

: Edith’s Graydon’s Christmas 1893 birth certificate

: Edith Graydon’s baptism, St Mark’s, Dalston, London, 11 March 1894

: Edith Graydon’s and Percy Thompson’s 1916 marriage certificate

: Edith Thompson’s 9 January 1923 death certificate

: Edith’s father William Graydon’s 1941 death certificate

: Edith’s grandfather’s 1910 death certificate

: Edith’s grandmother Deborah Liles’s 1921 death certificate

: Avis Graydon’s 1977 death certificate

: Harold Graydon’s 1978 death in Shrewsbury certificate

: A letter regarding the unfairness of the trial (referring to the BBC’s 1973 ‘Hanged for Adultery’)

: Avis Graydon will, 1972 (died 1977)

: CHARLES CARLTON note to René Weis

: CHARLES CARLTON Interview A (1987)

: CHARLES CARLTON interview B (1987)

: Times review of Criminal Justice, 21 July 1988 (Fiona MacCarthy)

: Liverpool Street to Ilford Third Class railway ticket, from the time Edith Thompson commuted