A letters written in the Titanic for one of the best known survivors of the shipwreck has been sold for a whopping $ 399,000.
The letter was written days before the unfortunate steam vessel was tragically reduced in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg, killing around 1,500.
A private collector of the United States won the tender war on Saturday, according to the Henry Aldridge & are auction house they are in Wiltshire, England.
The “Museum Grade” letter was written by the first -class passenger, Colonel Archibald Gracie, and was sent by mail on April 10, 1912 from Southampton.
The letter was Matascita de Queenstown, Ireland, however, one of the two scheduled stops of the ship before sinking.
“It’s a good ship, but I will wait for the end of my trip before judging it,” Gracie, 54 years old at that time, wrote in the prophetic letter.
Gracie survived the shipwreck jumping from the ship that sinks and swimming to a folding boat overturned. He was later rescued by other passengers aboard a lifeboat that passes.
He later wrote a book called “The truth about the Titanic.”
Gracie’s father had been a confederate officer during the Civil War, and his great -grandfather built Gracie Mansion, the current official residence of the Mayor of New York City.
Gracie was a return to New York after traveling to Europe in early 1912.
He suffered the effects of hypothermia long after the wreck and, months later, he became the first adult titanic survivor to die. The cause of death appeared as complications of diabetes.
With publication cables
