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Thomson attended high school in Boston where she studied with Felix Fox at the Fox-Buonamici School of Pianoforte at 403 Marlborough Street. She began to write compositions, and studied with Bainbridge Christ and went on to publish songs and short works for violin and piano under both the names
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Her papers are archived by her great-niece, artist
Jamieson Thomas of Wilmington, DE.
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