Voyagers of the Titanic (39 page)

21. Duff Gordon,
Discretions,
151.

22. Barratt,
Lost Voices,
99.

23. Steiner,
On the Trail,
136.

24. “1,500 Perish When Titanic Goes to Bottom,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
April 16, 1912, 1.

25. Hadley,
Letters of Bernard Berenson,
504–5.

26. Edith Wharton, “The Marne” (1918), in
Collected Stories 1911
–
1937
(2001)
,
261–62.

27. Arthur Freeman, “Harry Widener’s Last Books,”
Bookseller
26 (1977): 174, 182.

28. “Insurance at Lloyd’s: Mrs. Widener’s Pearls,”
Daily Telegraph,
April 18, 1912, 14.

29. Frank Millet to Alfred Parsons, April 11, 1912, http://www.encyclopaedia-titanica.org/letter-to-his-old-friend-alfred-parsons.html (accessed June 9, 2010).

30. Leon Edel, ed.,
Henry James: Letters
(1984), 4:613.

31. Archibald W. Butt,
Taft and Roosevelt
(1930), 2:848

32. “Major Butt’s Suit a Wonder,”
New York Times,
March 3, 1912.

33. Butt,
Taft and Roosevelt,
2:528–29.

34. Ibid., 833.

35. Ibid., 823.

36. Ibid., 653.

37. Ibid., 468–69.

38. Ibid., 573–77, 805–7.

39. W. T. Stead, testimony to Royal Commission on Divorce, December 21, 1910, Q 43403.

40. G. K. Chesterton,
Illustrated London News,
April 27, 1912.

41. Duff Gordon,
Discretions,
14.

42. Ibid., 16.

43. Ibid., 59.

44. Ibid., 69.

45. Ibid., 71.

46. Ibid., 44–45.

47. Ibid., 124–25.

48. Ibid., 137.

49. Ibid., 188–89.

50. Ibid., 78.

51. Barratt,
Lost Voices,
148.

52. Diary of Earl Winterton, October 2 and 3, 1912, Winterton Papers 11, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

53. Washington Dodge,
The Loss of the Titanic
(1912), 4; John Eaton and Charles Haas,
Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy
(1995), 114; Geoffrey Marcus,
The Maiden Voyage
(1969), 66–67.

54. Archibald Gracie,
The Truth About the Titanic
(1913), 5.

55. Millet to Parsons.

56. Duff Gordon,
Discretions,
148–49.

57. Mahala Douglas, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 15.

58. Ford Madox Ford,
A History of Our Own Times
(1989), 50.

59. “Great Cobar Examined,”
Times
(London), October 1, 1909, 13d.

60. Hugh Woolner, bankruptcy statement, July 16, 1909, NA BT 226/2749; Robert Sumner-Jones, bankruptcy examination, October 27, 1909, NA BT 226/2844.

61. Will dated January 30, 1912, proved July 4, 1917, in Probate Registry; “High Court of Justice,”
Times
(London), March 2, 1917, 2e.

62. “Notables Crowd Decks of Titanic,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
April 16, 1912, 2.

63. Post,
Etiquette,
601–2.

64. Dawn Powell,
A Time to Be Born
(1942), in
Novels 1930–1942
(2001), 774, 856.

65. “Titanic’s Sinking Comes as Shock to Philadelphia,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
April 16, 1912, 3.

66. Duff Gordon,
Discretions,
148–49.

67. Post,
Etiquette,
603.

68. John B. Thayer,
The Sinking of the SS Titanic
(1940), 334.

Chapter 7: Second Class

1. Theodore Dreiser,
A Traveler at Forty
(1914), 80–81.

2. “From West Country,”
Western Morning News,
April 18, 1912.

3. Robert Louis Stevenson,
From Scotland to Silverado
(1966), 4.

4. Arnold Bennett,
The Journals of Arnold Bennett 1911
–
1921
(1932)
,
2:12, 14.

5. R. A. Fletcher,
Travelling Palaces
(1913), 165.

6. Ibid., 164.

7. Berk Trembisky, alias Picard, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 14.

8. Stevenson, “Steerage Scenes,”
Amateur Emigrant,
in
From Scotland to Silverado,
27–28.

9. “Mr. Denzil Jarvis,”
Leicester Daily Post,
April 17, 1912, 5; “Leicester Men on the Titanic,”
Leicester Advertiser,
April 20, 1912, 6.

10. W. Somerset Maugham,
A Writer’s Notebook
(1949), 177–78, 296.

11. Violet Jessop,
Titanic Survivor
(1997), 90–92.

12. Imanita Shelley, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 18.

13. Nick Barratt,
Lost Voices from the Titanic
(2009), 102.

14. Sir Bertram Hayes,
Hull Down
(1925), 70.

15. Donald Hyslop, Alastair Forsyth, and Sheila Jemima, eds.,
Titanic Voices
(1997), 113.

16. Ibid., 114–15.

17. Ibid., 116.

18. Dreiser,
Traveler at Forty,
520.

19. Lawrence Beesley,
The Loss of the SS Titanic
(1912), 28, 32.

20. Hyslop, Forsyth, and Jemima,
Titanic Voices,
132–33.

21. “Local Titanic Passenger,”
Epping Gazette,
April 20, 1912, 4.

22. Henry Walker,
East London: Sketches of Christian Work and Workers
(1896), 17–18, 24.

23. “Obituary,”
Oxford Magazine
30 (May 2, 1912), 7.

24. “The Rev. E. C. and Mrs. Carter,”
Times
(London), April 20, 1912, 11.

25. Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Dunnett Shepherdess,” in
Novels and Stories
(1994), 520.

26. Jewett, “The Queen’s Twin,” in
Novels and Stories,
493.

27. Robert Bracken, “Searching for Kirkland” (February 15, 2006), http://www
.encyclopaedia-titanica.org (accessed June 14, 2010).

28. Hilary Spurling,
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
(2010), 20.

29. “Berks County Woman Died on the Titanic,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
April 20, 1912, 5.

30. “A qui sont les deux bébés francais sauvé du Titanic?,”
Le Matin,
April 24, 1912, 1.

31. “Liverpool Men’s Fate,”
Liverpool Daily Post,
April 17, 1912, 7; “Liverpool Titanic Victim,”
Liverpool Daily Post,
May 4, 1912, 9.

32. “The Guernsey Passengers,”
Guernsey Weekly Press,
April 20, 1912, 4.

33. Sid Blake, “The Titanic Disaster,”
Cornishman,
May 2, 1912, 4, duplicated in
Hayle Mail,
May 2, 1912, 5.

34. “Titanic,”
Western Morning News,
April 17, 1912, 1, 3.

35. I am indebted in this section to Arthur Cecil Todd’s delightful
The Cornish Miner in America
(1967), 12

36. “Loss of the Titanic,”
St. Ives Times,
April 19, 1912, 8.

37. Arthur Salmon,
The Cornwall Coast
(1910), 138.

38. “Wreck of the Titanic,”
Cornubian,
April 18, 1912.

39. Barratt,
Lost Voices,
145.

Chapter 8: Third Class

1. Edward A. Steiner,
On the Trail of the Immigrant
(1906), 198.

2. Sir Arthur Rostron,
Home from Sea
(1931), 47–48.

3. R. A. Fletcher,
Travelling Palaces
(1913), 275.

4. Senate,
Immigration Commission Reports on Emigration Conditions in Europe and Steerage Conditions,
61st Congress, 3rd Session, S. Docs. 748, 753, 758.

5. Willa Cather,
O Pioneers!
(1913), part 2, chapter 3, in
Early Novels and Stories
(Library of America, 1987), 188.

6. Stephen Graham,
With Poor Immigrants to America
(1914)
,
14.

7. Frank Goldsmith,
Echoes in the Night
(Titanic Historical Society, 1991), 37, 39.

8. Ibid., 42, 50.

9. Sinclair Lewis,
Dodsworth
(1929), 45.

10. Arnold Bennett,
The Journals of Arnold Bennett 1911
–
1921
(1932), 2:13.

11. Graham,
With Poor Immigrants,
15.

12. Daniel Allen Butler, “
Unsinkable”—The Full Story of RMS Titanic
(1998), 202.

13. Gertrude Bell,
The Desert and the Sown
(1907), 162–63.

14. John Kelman,
From Damascus to Palmyra
(1908), 28–29.

15. “On the Ship That Never Came Home: The Story of How Fifteen Girls and Boys from the West of Ireland Started for America on the
Titanic,
and How Two of Them Arrived,”
Irish Independent,
May 9, 1912, 3.

16. British Naval Intelligence Division,
A Handbook of Bulgaria
(1920), 80.

17. Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill,
Like Our Mountains: A History of Armenians in Canada
(2005), 3, 5–6, 21–22.