London Marathon this Sunday

Cutty Sark will be closed on Sunday 27 April until 2pm due to the London Marathon. All other sites are open to visitors and spectators as normal, but please check road closures before you travel and allow extra time as the area will be busy. Parking at the National Maritime Museum is unavailable all day.

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Copy of a letter from Alexander Macomb to his mother

Sent from USS FLORIDA, New York, 16 Apr 1912, on the reaction in New York to news of the TITANIC disaster.

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Object Details

ID:	LMQ/7/2/1
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Lord-Macquitty Collection
Date made:	1912-04-16
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 file (1 letter)
Parts:	Unpublished TITANIC information compiled by Walter Lord (Manuscript) Copy of a letter from Alexander Macomb to his mother (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/1) Correspondence between Walter Lord and Colin Farquahar MacDonald (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/2) Notes by Walter Lord of an interview with Edwina MacKenzie (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/3) Letter from Brian Mainwaring (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/4) Correspondence to Walter Lord from Mrs M. V. Mann, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/5) Copies of invoices to Harland and Wolff (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/6) Letters from Mrs Louis Mansfield Ogden to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/7) Letters from Arthur Olsen, TITANIC survivor, to Mr G. Martin (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/8) Letter from Helen R. Ostby, TITANIC survivor to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/9) Letters from John Owen to Walter Lord and William MacQuitty (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/10) Letter from George Perkins to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/11) Letter from Richard Proffer, Second Class cabin waiter (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/12) Letter from A. Pugh, TITANIC survivor, to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/13) Letter from R. Purvis, crew member on the CARPATHIA, to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/14) Letters from F. Dent Ray, TITANIC survivor, to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/15) Photocopy and translation of letter from George Rheims, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/16) Letter from Arnold A. Robert to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/17) Letter from Virginia Roche, telegrapher at the New York World newspaper, to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/18) Papers concerning Miss E. Rosenbaum (Edith Russell), TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/19) Letter from the Countess of Rothes, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/20) Letter from George T. Rowe, RMS TITANIC Quartermaster (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/21) Copies of letter from Mrs Emily Ryerson, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/22) Photocopy of letter from Mrs Paul Schabert, TITANIC survivor, to her sister in law, Countess Martha Butler-Clonebough, from the CARPATHIA (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/23) Letters from Jim Lyons to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/24) Photocopy of wireless cable sent from the CARPATHIA by Spencer V. Silverthorne and interview notes/transcript (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/25) Papers concerning Dr Jack Simpson, Assistant Surgeon on TITANIC (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/26) Letters from Anna Sjoblom, Third Class passenger (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/27) Copy of letter from May Sloan, Stewardess on TITANIC (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/28) Transcript and notes of interview with Maude Slocomb, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/29) Copy of letter by Mrs Isidor Strauss, written on board TITANIC (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/30) Photocopy of article commemorating New Jersey victims of TITANIC Disaster (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/31) Copied transcript of letter from Mrs J.B. Thayer, TITANIC survivor, to President Taft (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/32) Papers concerning Edwina Troutt, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/33) Photocopy of G.M. Tucker's landing card from the TITANIC (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/34) Correspondence with Fred G. Vallance (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/35) Photocopies of accounts by Robert Vaughan of TITANIC disaster (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/36) Letter from Bertha Watt, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/37) Letter from Mary Lines Wellman, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/38) Copy of letter from Alfred White to Rev. M Langley (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/39) Papers concerning Ella Holmes White, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/40) Letter from Alastair Forsyth to Walter Lord (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/41) Letter concerning Constance Willard, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/42) Letter from Mrs A.C. Williams, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/43) Correspondence with R. Norris Williams, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/44) Letter from Mr J. Witter, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/45) Transcripts of and correspodence regarding accounts of Hugh Woolner, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/46)

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