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A ‘prophetic’ letter written by one of the most well-known survivors of the Titanic has been sold for £300,000- five times ...
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"It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her." On April 10, 1912, Colonel Archibald ...
First-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote the missive shortly after settling into his cabin on the doomed vessel. It just ...
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A letter written by a Titanic survivor and posted from the doomed liner has sold for five times its estimate at £300,000.
This letter, dated April 10, 1912, has sold for £300,000 ($399,000) at Henry Aldridge and Son, an auction house specializing ...