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

Typed Letter Signed to the Revd A Francis thanking him “for your kind invitation. I am afraid however that it would be impossible for me to inflict myself upon you during my stay in Petersburg, for I am travelling with my son and my secretary and we shall all go to the Hotel de L’Europe. It will however give me great pleasure to see you and to talk over any questions in which we are both interested. I do not expect to arrive in St Petersburg before the beginning of October...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., engraved heading of the Review of Reviews, Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, London, but re-addressed Hotel Continental, Paris, 20th September

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 Titanic for 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:  1898

Stock No:  42378      £425

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