Titanic survivor's letter sold for £300,000 at auction
Summary
A letter from a passenger on the Titanic was sold for 300,000 pounds, which is around 400,000 dollars, in the UK. This was a lot more than the 60,000 pounds people thought it would get sold for.Key Facts
- The person who wrote the letter was named Colonel Archibald Gracie.
- He was a passenger on the Titanic, a big ship that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912.
- Colonel Gracie was one of about 2,200 people on the ship. Over 1,500 of them didn't survive.
- He wrote the letter on April 10, 1912, when he got on the ship in Southampton.
- The letter sold for 300,000 pounds at an auction house called Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire.
- This is the highest price any letter written on the Titanic has ever sold for.
- Colonel Gracie survived the sinking by getting onto a flipped over lifeboat in the cold water.
- His health got really bad from the cold and his injuries and he died later in 1912.
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