Letter from Virginia Roche, telegrapher at the New York World newspaper, to Walter Lord

Includes account of receiving and recording news of the TITANIC disaster.

ID:	LMQ/7/2/18
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Lord-Macquitty Collection
Date made:	1956-06-05
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 file (3 pages)
Parts:	Unpublished TITANIC information compiled by Walter Lord (Manuscript) Copy of a letter from Alexander Macomb to his mother (Manuscript) (LMQ/7/2/1) Correspondence between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)

Letter from Virginia Roche, telegrapher at the New York World newspaper, to Walter Lord

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