Titanic passengers wrote letters sold a lot of money from UK auctions

The fragile font card on the RMS Titanic just set a new world record. An anonymous collector paid a staggering $399,000 (over Rs 340 crore) for a history written by Colonel Archibald Gracie – described as a “prophecy”. It is worth noting that the estimated price is five times that of Rs 6.7 lakh, making it the most expensive Titanic letter ever.

“Waiting for the end of my journey”
“It is impossible to exaggerate the rarity of this batch, written by one of the highest survivors, with excellent content, containing rare mediums, the rarest medium, is a signal,” said Andrew Aldridge, auctioneer of Henry Aldridge & Son of Wiltshire, England.
Date on April 10, 1912 (the day the Titanic left Southampton), the letter brought a rare glimpse into life, tangled with the ship of bad fate. “It’s a great ship, but I’m going to wait for my journey to end before I judge her,” Gracie wrote. In hindsight, he had a troubling resonance.

Gracie praises for her bravery
Colonel Gracie was a top passenger in the C51 cabin and was praised for his heroism in the disaster, helping women and children into lifeboats. He insisted on capsizing the lifeboat until rescued and survived. He eventually arrived at the RMS Carpathians and later described his book The Truth About the Titanic, which was published in 1913. Aldridge further described the letter as one of the most detailed first-hand narratives of the last few hours of the Titanic.
Although Gracie’s survival was miraculous, the hypothermia he suffered caused huge losses. He died on December 4, 1912 due to complications of diabetes.

The letter is called “essential”
Gracie’s account was also the source of later research on Titanic. The historian Walter Lord, an author of the night to remember, relies on Gracie’s writings to call them “essential” to understand human behavior on the sunken ship.