To me personally, the most
interesting Titanic related postcard is the one discussed in the following old thread:
Thoughts Appreciated on this Postcard
It appears that it was posted by
Titanic survivor Alice "Adelaide" Louch to a Mrs Sarah. J. Donaldson, a 67 year-old widow living in Ionia, Michigan, at the time. Mrs Adelaide Louch, a Second Class passenger, lost her husband Charles Louch in the disaster but within a week of arriving in New York, was able to board another WSL ship the
Celtic to return to England. She mailed this postcard just before she boarded ship for her return. I tried extensive research to find out the how the two women knew each other, but was only partially successful. Also, the "Miss Lloyd" mentioned in the card as a companion to Mrs Louch on that voyage was not on the list of passengers nor was she a crew member on the
Celtic.
While it is easy to dismiss the card as yet another hoax with misinformation, my research turned up several interesting facts that strongly suggested that it was genuine. For starters, there really was a Sarah J Donaldson living in Ionia at the time, and like Mrs Louch, had strong connections with the Church. As mentioned before, Adelaide Louch returned to England on board the
Celtic in late April 1912 to start what was to be a quiet and thereafter uneventful life. But in 1916, 4 years after the
Titanic disaster, Adelaide's son Clarence Louch, engaged to another Briton Frances Gould (who also happened to be a distant cousin), went out of his way to a very remote town called Lewiston in Montana to get local Pastor Charles Donaldson officiate the wedding before the couple moved to and settled in California. My research suggested but did not prove that Sarah J Donaldson's former husband (they divorced before he died) who had British roots was related to a Donaldson family of Minnesota of which Pastor Charles Donaldson was a descendant.
Charles Donaldson was a very influential Freemason at the time and it is possible (although I have found no evidence of this as yet) that he helped the grieving and penniless Adelaide Louch obtain that passage on the
Celtic to return to Englald only a week after the
Carpathia had landed in New York. Her son Clarence Louch's efforts to get Pastor Donaldson to officiate his wedding might have been a gesture of gratitude.