 One poem, "Australia.A Translation of the Latin Prize Poem of S. Smith, a Student of Hyde Abbey School, Winchester", appeared in the Sydney Gazette for 17 December 1829, and was published shortly after as a two-paged pamphlet, now very rare.Tompson married Hannah Morris at St Matthew's, Windsor, on 12 April 1830; by 1831 he was living in Kent Street, Sydney, and had become a clerk in the colonial secretary's office.