Item 57 - 'The Titanic: lessons of the disaster - a survivor's telegram to the editor of The Times',

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COLL/02/03/57

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GB 2198 COLL/02/03/57

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'The Titanic: lessons of the disaster - a survivor's telegram to the editor of The Times',

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  • 19 Apr 1912 (Creation)

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1 envelope Printed Paper

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Beesley, Lawrence

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(1877- ) Matriculated Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1900. Survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Author of The Loss of the S.S. Titanic.

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Cambridge University, Gonville and Caius College Archive

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The Times

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98.067 - Donated to the Archive by Iain McPherson, fellow of Caius, 1998.

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?Modern copy.

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