Letter from William T. Stead to May Wright Sewall.

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Letter from William T. Stead to May Wright Sewall.

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Title: Letter from William T. Stead to May Wright Sewall.
Description: (London) Handwritten - very small, hard to read. Mentions lovers meeting - my son Alfred and Miss Hussey - discusses lack of their finances. He comments - "It is very romantic and beautiful but it is not practical." Founder and editor of English "Review of Reviews." Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1903. Devoted himself to international peace and friendship with Russia. During the later part of his life he became interested in the occult. He went down with the Titanic while on his way to speak at the Great Men and Religion Forward Movement in Carnegie Hall.
Correspondent: Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912
Date: 1900-12-08; 1900
Time period: 1900s (1900-1909); 20th century;
Subject: Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920; Journalists--Great Britain; Titanic (Steamship)
Genre: Correspondence;
Theme: Women; Education;
Collection: May Wright Sewall Papers
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Copyright information: This item is in the public domain.
Physical repository: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Indianapolis Public Library
Repository collection name: May Wright Sewall letters
Digital publisher: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Date digitized: 2005
Repository: The Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections
Source: From: May Wright Sewall Papers
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