Appendix - John Thompson's Writings

Summary

A Note on Lost and Inaccessible Sources

The majority of Thompson's papers are lost. Although the UK National Archives contain extensive materials on John Thompson and “medical war crimes,” I was unable to locate:

Thompson's card index on medical war crimes, compiled in 1945–47

The roughly ten thousand items microfilmed and then printed for the ISC and circulated by Lord Moran

Items copied by Lt. Col. James Blaisdell and Thompson for transmission to Canada

Lost papers include:

Those seized and sealed by the New York Police Department in August 1965; Margaret Thompson recollects that the police impounded extensive personal papers.

Thompson's manuscripts

Lectures and papers, for example, an article for the Twentieth Century (commissioned by Guy Wint) in 1957; a 1954 lecture at the German Foreign Office on Eau Vive, delivered at a Council of Europe meeting; “On the Nature of the Relationship between Human Beings,” John W. R. Thompson, listed in the Bulletin of St. John's College in Annapolis and in Santa Fe (October 1962)

Collections of papers deposited with William Corwin, Boston and in Montréal 1939–45

Inaccessible records include:

Records of Waltham State Metropolitan Hospital

John Thompson's patient records at Rutland State Sanatorium and McClean Psychiatric Hospital, and perhaps records as a patient.

Hygiene 1940–41, UAI5.168, box 183, Harvard University Archives. A request to view this file was denied by Harvard University.

Records of Eau Vive, held at the Saulchoir Library, Paris

I hope that further materials and records will come to light.