Copy of Autograph Letter Signed ('Frank H. Evans') from the banker and Liberal politician Sir Francis Henry Evans to the proprietor of the White Star Line Thomas Henry Ismay, complaining of the treatment of his sister-in-law on a transatlantic voyage

3pp., 12mo. An early sort of carbon copy. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Thomas H Ismay Esq | Liverpool'. The letter begins: 'I am exceedingly surprised & very much annoyed to learn from my sister-in-law Miss Stevens that instead of receiving the slightest attention from Captain Thomson she could not get a seat at table & that when she attempted to obtain some dinner from the Steward he rudely told her that he had enough to do in attending to those who had seats without troubling himself about those who had none - It was half past ten at night before she could get anything & then the stewardess managed to get a little cold beef.' Evans has 'never known such want of courtesy & attention shown to any young lady specially placed under the captain's care'. He 'took every means to secure for Miss Stevens at any rate ordinary civility by speaking to Mr. Fletcher here & to yourself in Liverpool - and the only result has been that in relying upon this, Miss Stevens has been derpived of even the ordinary comforts I could easily have obtained for her in some other way'. He concludes: 'I persuaded Miss Stevens to go by your line in preference to the Cunard & you will allow that I have much reason to regret that I did so.'