[TITANIC]: TROUTT MCKENZIE EDWINA (1884-1984) English-born survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster, having boarded the ...

[TITANIC]: TROUTT MCKENZIE EDWINA (1884-1984) English-born survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster, having boarded the liner at Southampton as a second-class passenger. An interesting A.L.S., Edwina, one page, 8vo, Hermosa Beach, California, 26th June n.y. (1974), to Robert Forrest, evidently a collector of Titanic memorabilia. McKenzie thanks her correspondent for their letter, remarking 'You are very descriptive and I feel your house must be equivalent to a museum' and further stating 'Ed Kamuda wired me of the passing of Mrs. O'Niell [sic, i.e. Margaret Devaney] I immediately sent a Mass card to her family…..my short acquaintance with her will always be well remembered. She said I was perky as a kitten. We had many laughs together. She had a knife with her which was used to cut the ropes over the cars, also a piece of wood carved out of the lifeboat….Won't it be nice if you can meet Miss Russell [i.e. Edith Rosenbaum] in London. She is so truthful about the noise at the time of the sinking. Worse than any siren of thunderstorm. Tell her I was in lifeboat 13. You know she saved a pig (stuffed music box) and some of the papers headlines were a Titanic survivor saved a pig…..I have been under the weather for ten days now and I still have to bathe my foot each hour for twenty minutes. What a past time. I am enclosing a card (no longer present) from Walter Lord, also the Queen Mary schedule. I am still feeling sad over the death of Lance Bonnit and Mrs. O'Niell (sic)'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by McKenzie. A letter of good content relating to the ill-fated RMS Titanic. VG Edward S. Kamuda (1939-2014) American historian who specialised in the study of the RMS Titanic and was a co-founder and president of the Titanic Historical Society. Margaret Devaney (1891-1974) Irish-born survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster, having boarded the liner at Queenstown as third-class passenger. Edith Rosenbaum (1879-1975) American society and fashion journalist, a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster, having boarded the liner at Cherbourg as a first-class passenger. Rosenbaum had a steward retrieve one treasured possession from her stateroom on the Titanic, a small toy pig covered with white fur which, when winding its tail, would play a piece called the Maxixe. In her latter years she lived in a London hotel where she became increasingly eccentric and disagreeable. Walter Lord (1917-2002) American author, lawyer and popular historian best known for A Night to Remember (1955), being his account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.