Letters from Sylvia Mechele and Julie Hedgepeth to Walter Lord and photograph

Letter from Sylvia Mecherle to Walter Lord (13 Jul 1955), recounting her memories of the night the TITANIC sank. Also letter from Julie Hedgepeth (5 Apr 1987), enclosing a photograph of her great uncle Albert, with his wife Sylvia and their son Alden, on board the TITANIC.

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ID:	LMQ/7/1/14
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Lord-Macquitty Collection
Date made:	1912-1987
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 file (2 letters and 1 photograph)
Parts:	Unpublished TITANIC information compiled by Walter Lord (Manuscript) Typed account of Mrs J.W. Anderson, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/1) Letter from Geoffrey C. Ward to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/2) Extract of a letter from Henry G.Barr to Steward H. Holbrook (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/3) Letter to "Tucker" from Laurence Beasley (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/4) Papers relating to TITANIC survivor Karl H. Behr (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/5) Photograph of TITANIC's surviving officers with officers of the CARPATHIA (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/6) Letter from Mrs John Black, TITANIC survivor, to Geoffry G. Martin of Rank Film Distributors (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/7) Letter from Susanne Blackwell Thompson to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/8) Letter from Betty Bolling, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/9) Correspondence with Commander J.G. Boxhall (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/10) Two letters from Helen Hernandez, at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/11) Copy of a letter from Harold Bride to W.R. Cross (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/12) Newspaper cutting on Edith Haisman (nee Brown), TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/13) Letters from Sylvia Mechele and Julie Hedgepeth to Walter Lord and photograph (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/14) Photocopy of a letter from W.G. Browne to Mr Maxtone Graham (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/15) Letter and interview transcripts from/with Mrs Henry Arthur Cassebeer, Jr., TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/16) Letters from Gus Cohen, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/17) Correspondence between Mrs Cooke, daughter of Captain Smith of the TITANIC and Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/18) Copy of a letter from Edwina Corrigan, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/19) Copies of letters from Cunard and Bruce Ismay (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/20) Correspondence between Helen D. Rodman and Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/21) Letters from Elizabeth Darby (nee Nye) to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/22) Copy of a newspaper article from the Wiltshire Times (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/23) Letter from Mrs C. Decker, TITANIC survivor, to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/24) Copy of a newspaper article on Patrick Dillon (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/25) Photocopy of an extract from "When We Went First Class" by Ellen Williamson (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/26) Letter from Marshall B. Drew to Walter Lord and related newspaper articles (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/27) Copy of a letter from Laura Mabel Francatelli, TITANIC survivor, to Mary Ann Taylor and copy of the Sotheby's notice of the sale of the original (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/28) Letter from Marguerite Frolicher, TITANIC survivor, to Walter Lord, and transcript of interview (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/29) Letter from Mrs Jacques Futrelle, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/30) Correspondence between Harry Giles to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/31) Transcript of an interview between Walter Lord and Katherine Gilnagh (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/32) Typed excerpts of correspondence by TITANIC survivors and letters (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/33) Correspondence with Frank Goldsmith, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/34) Copies of newspaper cuttings concerning Lady Duff Gordon, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/35) Copies of a death announcement and obituary of Sir Duff Gordon (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/36) Letters from Charles Victor Groves to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/37) Letter from George Harris, cook on the TITANIC, to William MacQuitty (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/38) Papers concerning Mrs Henry B. Harris, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/39) Copy of a letter from Eva Hart to Mrs Bloomfied (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/40) Correspondence between T.D. Haubner and Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/41) Copy of a letter from Mary Hewlett, TITANIC survivor and transcript (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/42) Letter from Roland Hind to Walter Lord including sheet of music (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/43) Letters from Walter Hurst to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/44) Letter from Leo James Hyland (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/45) Papers concerning Violet Jessup (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/46) Letter from Charles Joughin to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/47) Photocopies of a cartoon about the sinking of the TITANIC (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/48) A letter from George Kemish to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/49) Letter from Seymour Leslie to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/50) Copy of letter received by Gretchen Langley (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/51) Correspondence between Walter Lord and Mrs D.H. Patteson Knight (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/52) Copy of the testimony of Harold Lowe, 5th Officer on the TITANIC (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/1/53)

Letters from Sylvia Mechele and Julie Hedgepeth to Walter Lord and photograph

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