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A letter written onboard the Titanic before it sank sells for almost $400,000 at auction
Manila Bulletin
|April 28, 2025
A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic's most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.
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In the note, written to the seller's great-uncle on April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her."
The letter was sold to a private collector from the United States on Saturday, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England.
This story is from the April 28, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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