STEAD (William Thomas, 1849-1912, Journalist and Author, died on the Titanic)

Typed Letter Signed to Mr Wilkerson, saying he will "be delighted to place a room at Mowbray House at your disposal, and I am delighted to know that you think the Young Britons Society could be brought into being. Any day that you find convenient will do, whether it be in the afternoon or the evening ...", engraved heading of the Review of Reviews, 1 side oblong 8vo., Mowbray House, Norfolk Stree, London, 19th February

Stead resigned his editorship of the Pall Mall in 1889 in order to found the Review of Reviews (1890) with Sir George Newnes. It was a highly successful non-partisan monthly. The journal found a global audience and was intended to bind the empire together by synthesising all its best journalism. Stead's abundant energy and facile pen found scope in many other directions in journalism of an advanced humanitarian type. He was the first editor to employ female journalists.
Stead boarded the Titanicfor a visit to the United States to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall at the request of President William Taft. A later sighting of Stead, by survivor Philip Mock, has him clinging to a raft with John Jacob Astor IV. They both drowned.

Item Date:  1902

Stock No:  41557      £475

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