LETTER WRITTEN ON BOARD THE TITANIC MAKES RECORD PRICE
A letter written by a Titanic passenger days before the ship sank has been sold for a record-breaking £300,000 at auction. Colonel Archibald Gracie’s letter was purchased by an anonymous buyer at Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Wiltshire on Sunday, at a price five times higher than the £60,000 it was expected to fetch.
Dated 10 April 1912, the day he boarded the Titanic in Southampton, it was posted when the ship docked in Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912. It was also postmarked London on 12 April. The letter had attracted the highest price of any correspondence written onboard the Titanic.
Col Gracie’s later wrote the book The Truth About The Titanic, recalling his experience onboard the doomed ocean liner. He survived by scrambling onto an overturned lifeboat in the icy waters. More than half the men who had originally reached the lifeboat died from exhaustion or cold, he wrote. Col Gracie survived the disaster but his health was severely affected by the hypothermia and physical injuries he suffered. He fell into a coma on 2 December 1912, and died two days later.
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