Voyagers of the Titanic (38 page)

Notes

Prologue: From Greenland’s Icy Mountains

1. Sir Arthur Rostron,
Home from the Sea
(1931), 19.

Chapter 1: Boarding

1. H. G. Wells,
Anticipations
(1901), 79, 82–83.

2. Estelle Stead,
My Father
(1913), 342.

3. G. K. Chesterton, “Our Notebook,”
Illustrated London News,
April 27, 1912, 619.

4. Ian Jack,
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
(2009), 106.

5. Edward A. Steiner,
On the Trail of the Immigrant
(1906), 40–41.

6. Michael McCaughan,
The Birth of the Titanic
(1998), 1–2.

7. R. A. Williams,
The London and South Western Railway
(1973), 2:134.

8. “ ‘Titanic’ Insurances,”
Economist,
April 20, 1912, 846.

9. “To Reassure Mr. Morgan,”
New York Times,
January 30, 1912.

10. Rollin Hadley, ed.,
Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887
–
1921
(1987), 388.

Chapter 2: Speed

1. “The Titanic’s Departure from Southampton,”
Southampton Daily Echo,
April 15, 1912.

2. Nick Barratt,
Lost Voices from the Titanic
(2009), 101.

3. Arthur Mee,
Hampshire
(1939), 332–33.

4. Emile Zola,
La bête humaine
(1890), chapter 7.

5. “Passenger’s Impressions,”
Belfast Evening Telegraph,
April 15, 1912, 7. This account was written by a first-class passenger who disembarked at Queenstown. By a process of elimination this may be deduced to be a passenger named Nichols about whom nothing is yet known.

6. F. T. Marinetti, “Manifeste du futurisme,”
Le Figaro,
February 20, 1909, front page.

7. “Pékin-Paris En Aéroplane,”
Le Matin,
April 16, 1912, 1; “Channel Flown by a Lady Aviator,”
Daily Telegraph,
April 17, 1912, 9; “Une Aviatrice Passe la Manche,”
Le Matin,
April 17, 1912, 1; “Un Match Tragique Entre Deux Aviateurs,”
Le Matin,
April 19, 1912, 3.

8. George Harvey,
Henry Clay Frick
(1936), 359.

9. Archibald W. Butt,
Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt
(1930), 2:468.

10. Eric Homberger,
Mrs. Astor’s New York: Social Power in a Gilded Age
(2002), xiv.

11. R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, eds.,
Letters of Edith Wharton
(1988), 225.

12. Edith Wharton,
The Fruit of the Tree
(1907), 31.

13. Carl Sandburg,
Always the Young Strangers
(1953), 281.

14. Edward Alsworth Ross,
The Old World in the New
(1914), 113.

15. Ibid., 154.

16. Lawrence Beesley,
The Loss of the SS Titanic
(1912), 27.

Chapter 3: Shipowners

1. Denys Sutton,
Letters of Roger Fry
(1972), 1:226.

2. Bruce Ismay, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 1,
Hearings Before a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Commerce, to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Wreck of the White Star Liner S.S. Titanic
, United States Senate, 62nd Congress, Second Session, S. Doc. 726 (#6167). Consulted via www.titanicinquiry.org.

3. Arthur Pound and Samuel Taylor Moore, eds.,
They Told Barron: Conversations of an American Pepys in Wall Street
(1930), 7.

4. Edwin Green and Michael Moss,
A Business of National Importance
(1982), 28.

5. W. T. Stead, “Lord Pirrie,”
Review of Reviews
45 (March 1912): 243.

6. Herbert Jefferson,
Viscount Pirrie of Belfast
(1948), 308–9.

7. “Death of Mr. T. H. Ismay,”
Liverpool Daily Post,
December 1, 1899, quoted in Nick Barratt,
Lost Voices from the Titanic
(2009), 15.

8.
Daily Sketch,
June 5, 1912, quoted in John Wilson Foster,
The Titanic
(1999), 206.

9. E. M. Forster,
Howards End
(1910), chapter 27.

10. Lord Vansittart,
The Mist Procession
(1958), 61.

11. Sutton,
Roger Fry,
292.

12. Sir Clinton Dawkins to Sir Alfred Milner, February 8, 1901, Milner Papers 214, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

13. Dawkins to Milner, July 13, 1901.

14. Sutton,
Roger Fry,
230.

15. David J. Jeremy, ed.,
Dictionary of Business Biography
(1984), 2:258.

16. Michael Moss and John Hume,
Shipbuilders to the World
(1986), 106.

17. Green and Moss,
Business of National Importance,
20.

18. “The Anglo-American Shipping Combine,”
Economist,
April 26, 1902, 645–46.

19. “The Troubles of the Shipping Trust,”
Economist,
July 23, 1904, 1227.

20. “A German View of British Shipping,”
Economist,
June 1, 1907, 934.

21. Julia Davis and Dolores Fleming, eds.,
Ambassadorial Diary of John W. Davis
(1993), 394.

22. Sutton,
Roger Fry
, 251.

Chapter 4: Shipbuilders

1. Shan F. Bullock,
Thomas Andrews
(1912), 8, 11, 17.

2. Ibid., 21–23, 43.

3. Rudyard Kipling, “The Secret of the Machines” (1910).

4. R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, eds.,
Letters of Edith Wharton
(1988), 125.

5. Violet Jessop,
Titanic Survivor
(1997), 104–5.

6. Diary of Earl Winterton, September 28 and 29 and October 6, 1912, Winterton Papers 11, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

7. Alexander Carlisle, testimony to Lord Mersey’s inquiry, day 20, Q 21401, Wreck Commissioners’ Court,
Proceedings Before Lord Mersey of a Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Attending the Foundering on the 15th April 1912 of the British Steamship Titanic
(HMSO, 1912). Accessed online at www.titanicinquiry.org.

8. Sir Alfred Chambers, testimony to Lord Mersey inquiry, day 23, QQ 22875, 22965.

9. Carlisle, Mersey inquiry, Q 21358.

10. Captain Maurice Clarke, testimony to Lord Mersey inquiry, day 25, QQ 24173–4.

11. Captain Arthur Rostron, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 1.

12. 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).

13. R. A. Fletcher,
Travelling Palaces
(1913), 255.

14. “Floating Lobster Palaces,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
April 21, 1912, 8.

Chapter 5: Sailors

1. Sir Arthur Rostron,
Home from the Sea
(1931), 8–9.

2. Charles Herbert Lightoller,
Titanic and Other Ships
(1935), 91–92.

3. Sir James Bisset,
Tramps and Ladies
(1959), 1–2.

4. Ibid., 9.

5. Lightoller,
Titanic,
12–13.

6. Ibid., 36.

7. “The Policing of Disaster,”
Spectator,
March 23, 1912, 468.

8. R. A. Fletcher,
Travelling Palaces
(1913), 242.

9. Rostron,
Home,
32–33.

10. Lightoller,
Titanic,
206–7.

11. Rudyard Kipling, “The Long Trail” (1891).

Chapter 6: First Class

1. Daisy, Princess of Pless,
From My Private Diary
(1931), 277; Ulrik Langen, “The Meaning of Incognito,”
Court Historian
(2002), 7:145–55.

2. Washington Irving,
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
(1976 ed.), 12.

3. Edith Wharton,
The Custom of the Country
(1913), chapter 45.

4. Lady Decies,
King Lehr and the Gilded Age
(1935), 167.

5. Rollin Van D. Hadley, ed.,
The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887–1924
(1987), 450, 458.

6. R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, eds.,
Letters of Edith Wharton
(1988), 312–13.

7. Henry James,
The Golden Bowl
(1904), book I, chapter 7.

8. “Panniers Reign Supreme in Paris Fashion World,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
April 21, 1912, Sunday supplement, 3.

9. Lady Duff Gordon,
Discretions and Indiscretions
(1932), 191.

10. Violet Jessop,
Titanic Survivor
(1997), 106–7.

11. Nick Barratt,
Lost Voices from the Titanic
(2009), 99.

12. Edward A. Steiner,
On the Trail of the Immigrant
(1906), 360–62.

13. Ibid.

14. Duff Gordon,
Discretions,
79–80.

15. Jessop,
Titanic Survivor,
103–4.

16. Harvey O’Connor,
The Astors
(1941), 277.

17. Diary of Jean, Lady Hamilton, February 14, 1914, Liddell Hart Centre, Kings College, London.

18. Decies,
King Lehr,
149–50.

19. Emily Post,
Etiquette
(1922), 598–99.

20. Kristen Iversen,
Molly Brown
(1999), 107.