Letter written on the Titanic ship before it sinking for almost $ 400,000 at auction

London – Lettercard Defendant one of the most famous survivors from the ship on board, the day before it sank, sold £ 300,000 ($ 399,000) at auction.

In the notes, written to the seller from 10. April 1912, the first class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote abuseful couples: “It’s a fine ship, but I’ll wait for me to move on to him.”

The letter was sold to a private collector from the United States on Saturday, according to the Henry Aldridge Auction house And Son in Wiltshire, England. The price of the hammer far exceeded the initial price estimate of £ 60,000.

The letter is believed to be the only example of existence from the built-in Titanic, who hit Newfoundland after he struck the iceberg, killing about 1,500 people on his / her girlfriend journey.

Auctioreer Andrew Aldridge described as a “exception of a piece of museum.”

Gracie, who jumped from the ship and managed to give up on the overturned ship crashed layers, saved other passengers on the rescue ship and was taken to RMS Carpathia. He continued to write “the truth about Titanic”, the account of his experiences, when he returned to New York City.

Gracie inserted Titanic in Southampton 10. April 1912. year, and was awarded to the first-class C51 cabin. His book is considered one of the most comprehensive accounts of the night’s events, the ship sank Aldridge. Gracie did not fully recover from hypothermia she suffered and died of complications from diabetes in late 1912. Years.