Titanic Interest.-Edwina Mckenzie

Autograph letter signed ('Edwina') to Robert Forrest, thanking her correspondent for his letter 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 [Survivor 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 [ Survivor 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 from Walter Lord, also the Queen Mary schedule. I am still feeling sad over the death of Lance Bonnit and Mrs. O'Niell", one page, light creasing, 8vo, 22 June 1974, with original mailing envelope addressed in McKenzi's hand.