Handwritten chapter notes and related material for the book A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Item is subdivided into sixteen folders; each folder contains titled chapter(s) of the book.
Folder One: "Another Belfast Trip". Includes a letter from Lord to the New York Herald Tribune, with reply attached, and a postcard to Lord, in response to the letter from Lord which had been printed in the Tribune.
Folder Two: ""There's talk of an iceberg, M'am"".
Folder Three: ""You can't get back on without a pass"".
Folder Four: ""Hurry up mate, you're keeping the others waiting"".
Folder Five: ""I'm afraid she's gone, Hardy"".
Folder Six: ""That's the way of it, at this time"".
Folder Seven: "Now you've lost your lovely nightgown"".
Folder Eight: ""Like a bloomin' picnic"".
Folder Nine: ""Much more coffee"".
Folder Ten: ""We have just seen our husbands drown"".
Folder Eleven "Pre-iceberg".
Folder Twelve: "Post pick-up".
Folder Thirteen: "Ship data" and "Personalities". Includes a letter to Lord from The Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
Folder Fourteen: "Narratives" (empty) and "Key People".
Folder Fifteen: "Wireless shack".
Folder Sixteen: "Californian".

Record Details

Item reference: LMQ/2/1
Catalogue Section: Artificial collections previously assembled
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1945-1955; 1955 - ?
Creator: Lord-Macquitty Collection
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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