The Priory
Hyderall
Greenwich
S.E.
10.11-15
Dear Miss Prichard
Indeed I sympathise with you in your great loss.
I do not know any of the surviving passengers yet by a strange coincidence I have heard a little news of my sister. First thru a stewardess of her cabin who saw my name in papers & so wrote to tell me what she could.
– Why not write to Cunard’s & ask if the steward of 2nd Cabin D.90 is alive & in their employ? –
Then again a sister in Canada met by chance a gentleman living over there, who had been rescued – after being 3 hours in the water – & as she had a photo of my sister with her, this gentleman recognized it as “the English Lady” he had seen in the train from Winnipeg, & again daily on the Lusitania, altho’, they had not spoken. Perhaps he would have met & spoken with your brother. I do not know his address, but I can give you that of
I gather from the description that your brother’s body was not recovered, nor was that of my friend altho’ he & my sister were together at the last – the stewardess told me they might have been saved as they were on the boat deck, but she saw them after the accident & they were moving away evidently they said there was were not boats enough for nearly all, so they would not take the places other needed. They both smiled at & spoke to the stewardess as they passed her. And that is no doubt how your brother too met his death.
I do hope you will gain some last bit of news of him.
Yours very sincerely
S[ister] Francis O.S.P.
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