[Admiral Fremantle; Titanic] Autograph Letter Signed ER Fremantle to unnamed correspondent, author of a Poem about the sinking of the Titanic, congratulating and criticising.

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, very good condition. Text: A line to acknowledge your stirring poem on the loss of the Titanic which I admire much. | I suppose & hope that the story of the band is true, but it requires some corroboration. | May I make one criticism - Why 'tinselled' heroes- There is something in the pomp & circumstance of war no doubt, but leaders in a forlorn hope are heroes all the same; and mere passive resignation to death in which the Chinese would surpass us is not so superior to the courage which induces a man to 'seek the bubble reputation e'en at the cannon's mouth' as you would put it- Excuse the criticism-. Note: I haven't managed to find a Poem about the sinking of the Titanic with the word tinselled in it.