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FDR & the Roosevelts and the Titanic Disaster Documents
FDR & the Roosevelts and the Titanic Disaster Documents
50 pages of handwritten documents and transcripts, dating from April 15 to April 24, 1912, reflecting how FDR and his family members reacted to the sinking of the Titanic.
During its maiden voyage, on Sunday, 14 April 1912, the White Star Line's luxury steamer RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes, 370 miles southeast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Among the 1,500 people who died that night were several prominent Americans, including John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Major Archie Butt and Isidor Straus. 710 survivors of the wreck were rescued from lifeboats and carried to New York by the British ship, RMS Carpathia. Members of both the Roosevelt and Delano families knew several of the first-class passengers who died.
On April 14, 1912, 30-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a New York State Senator. At the time of the sinking, FDR was in Panama observing the construction of the Panama Canal. Exactly 33 years later, he would be buried at the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, New York, after dying on April 12, 1945
Highlights in this collection includes a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt written in Panama to his mother Sara, he asks her to save newspapers about the disaster because, "We know practically no details, only scraps here and there. I am counting on your saving all the papers for every day I am away…" She replied, "Rosy is much upset over poor Jack Astor's death and spends most of his time at Mr. Ledyard's office. Mr. Millet, Mr. Widener, Major Archie Butt and Mary, others were well known but oh! the tragedies in the steerage as well."
At the time of the disaster Eleanor Roosevelt was in Albany, New York. She wrote to Franklin, “The news of the Titanic disaster came in the morning, but the reports were that all were saved until quite late at night. It is so appalling and awful and I think almost worse for the many women who were saved and who would probably far rather have gone down with their husbands and sons. I am so glad you are at least out of the track of icebergs.”
50 pages of handwritten documents and transcripts, dating from April 15 to April 24, 1912, reflecting how FDR and his family members reacted to the sinking of the Titanic.
During its maiden voyage, on Sunday, 14 April 1912, the White Star Line's luxury steamer RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes, 370 miles southeast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Among the 1,500 people who died that night were several prominent Americans, including John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Major Archie Butt and Isidor Straus. 710 survivors of the wreck were rescued from lifeboats and carried to New York by the British ship, RMS Carpathia. Members of both the Roosevelt and Delano families knew several of the first-class passengers who died.
On April 14, 1912, 30-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a New York State Senator. At the time of the sinking, FDR was in Panama observing the construction of the Panama Canal. Exactly 33 years later, he would be buried at the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, New York, after dying on April 12, 1945
Highlights in this collection includes a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt written in Panama to his mother Sara, he asks her to save newspapers about the disaster because, "We know practically no details, only scraps here and there. I am counting on your saving all the papers for every day I am away…" She replied, "Rosy is much upset over poor Jack Astor's death and spends most of his time at Mr. Ledyard's office. Mr. Millet, Mr. Widener, Major Archie Butt and Mary, others were well known but oh! the tragedies in the steerage as well."
At the time of the disaster Eleanor Roosevelt was in Albany, New York. She wrote to Franklin, “The news of the Titanic disaster came in the morning, but the reports were that all were saved until quite late at night. It is so appalling and awful and I think almost worse for the many women who were saved and who would probably far rather have gone down with their husbands and sons. I am so glad you are at least out of the track of icebergs.”
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