Letter describing S.S. Titanic disaster

Hopkins, Emma Santee.

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Emma Santee Hopkins and her husband Alva A. Hopkins were booked for passage on the Titanic. They were not satisfied with their stateroom, and instead traveled on the R.M.S. Mauretania the following day. An account of the Hopkins' narrow escape later appeared in the NEW YORK TRIBUNE under the title "A Woman's Intuition." From the description of Emma Santee Hopkins letter, 1912. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072027 ...

Mauretania (Ship)

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Titanic (Steamship)

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The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. It was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service....

Hopkins, Alva A.

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