Collection of letters from Edith Russel (survivor) recollections her time on the TITANIC and rescue.
A collection of letters between Edith Russell and William MacQuitty in the years 1956 - 1958 about her experience on the TITANIC and rescue. Also included is a photocopy of a newspaper clipping titled 'Swindlers at work', featuring people in TITANIC lifeboats who changed their names and tried conning people out of their money. A handwritten note from Walter Lord to William MacQuitty states that Edith sued the Sun newspaper and won; a typed article titled ‘A night to remember… I was there…’; a newspaper clipping of Edith Russell’s death aged 98; a photocopy of one of Edith’s newspaper interviews and a postcard to William MacQuitty.
Record Details
| Item reference: | LMQ/9/2/1 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Artificial collections previously assembled |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1940-1958 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Lord-MacQuitty Collection |
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- Collection of letters from Edith Russel (survivor) recollections her time on the TITANIC and rescue. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/1)
- Two copies of an interview with Edith Russell 1957-1958 (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/2)
- Correspondence and photographs concerning the identity of Mrs Hanson. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/3)
- Letter from Marjorie Simpson, sister of the baby that Edwina Celia Troutt saved. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/4)
- Letters from people who were on the CARPATHIA, MINIA and in the Southampton office during the TITANIC disaster. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/5)
- Letters from Joseph Boxshall, fourth officer on the TITANIC. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/6)
- A series of letters of survivors of the TITANIC offering their insight on the disaster. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/7)
- Letters from Eva Hart about the film A Night to Remember. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/8)
- John Owen, a stowaway, sketches containing letters to Walter MacQuitty (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/9)
- Notes on survivors experiences and a reference of a plaque supposedly written by John Astor. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/10)
- Letters from relatives of the survivors of the TITANIC. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/11)
- A list of replies to William MacQuitty's newspaper advertisement. (Manuscript) (LMQ/9/2/12)
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