1. Edith Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, p. 87.
2. Charles T. Spedding, Reminiscences of Transatlantic Travellers, p. 278.
3. Basil Woon, The Frantic Atlantic, pp. 144–5.
4. Stella Margetson, The Long Party: High Society in the Twenties and Thirties, Gordon Cremonesi, 1974, p. 123.
5. Richard Collier, The Rainbow People : A Gaudy World of the Very Rich and Those Who Served Them, Dodd Mead; 1st edition 1984, p. 73.
6. Woon, op.cit., p. 68
7. Elspeth Wills, Stars Aboard: Celebrities of Yesteryear Who Travelled Cunard Line During the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel, London: Open Agency, 2003, p. 5.
8. Evelyn Waugh, ‘The Gentle Art of Being Interviewed’, Vogue, July 1948.
9. Woon, op.cit., p. 3.