A LETTER SENT FROM R.M.S. TITANIC

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A LETTER SENT FROM R.M.S. TITANIC
written over two sheets by John ('Jack') Butterworth to May Hinton, address and dated R.M.S. TIATANIC [sic]. Queenstown 12^th Apl 1912, describing the incident with S.S.'s Oceanic and New York: ..you could have tossed a penny from our ship to her she was so close, it was a good job she did not hit us as it would have been another case of the Hawke collision.; together with a photo-postcard of Butterworth
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Miss Hinton received this letter in the same post as notification that Butterworth had not survived. The body of John Butterworth, a saloon steward, was recovered by the Makay Bennett and buried at sea on 24^th April.

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