The letter of the Titanic Survivor, the letter written on the ship, sells about $ 400,000

Titanic’s first-class passenger, first-class passenger, Colonade, Grobery, a letter written on the ship: “It is a beautiful ship.

Colonel Gracie’s journey in Titanic had a catastrophic end, but it was better than most.

It was on the top deck of the ship because he was plunged into the sea. He said he was “swirled, before he had to spend hours floating in icy waters before riddles.

His letter was sold on Saturday, according to Henry Aldridge and his son, 399 thousand (or 300,000 pounds) in the Auction House in Wiltshire, England.

The auction house said The letter written in a neat, cursal manuscript addressed an unknown European ambassador to the seller. The letter title shows a triangular red flag with a white star and is printed in the words “Titanic on the board”.

The letter dated April 10, 1912, the ship Southampton was sailed from Sauthampton in Britain. On April 12, he was recorded in London, where he was taken at the Waldorf Hotel. Titanic hit an iceberg before midnight on April 14 and sank the next day.

The recipient of the letter, Andrew Aldridge, Henry Aldridge and Son, according to the managing director Andrew Aldridge, was located in the United States. The auction house did not clearly identify the buyer or seller.

Mr. Aldridge said in an e-mail, the stories of the ship’s passenger stories and “described through memories” and “memories are saved via these items.”

The auction house waited the letter first To sell up to 60,000 pounds or about $ 80,000.

Colonel Gracie, a graduate of the United States Military Academy on the West Point, was highly survived by the Titanic disaster, where about 1,500 people were killed.

Eight months later died, In December 1912According to diseases, but doctors and family, the real cause, true reason, the real reason, the real reason, the New York Times was never freed from the shock of the Titanic catastrophe.

Colonel Gracie started work after rescue “Truth about Titanic” An experienced book was published in a postal way. New York Times The book review He said: “There is something effective in the narrative and lack of compliance.”

Colonel Gracie said in an interview New York Tribune It was on the top deck of the ship when he was shot with a wave sent to the other people. He managed to stay and caught a brass of a rail.

“When the ship was down, I was forced to go and I walked around and around and around because I looked at each other.” “Finally, I came to the surface to find the crowd of the sea.”

He said he was holding a wooden floor and then a canvas and fungus raft. He made him a raft and tried to save others. In the end, a rescue ship reached the RMS Carpathia.

“The clocks passing before the carpathy were the most terrible I spent,” said Colonel Gracie, Tribune. “We’ve almost fell out of fatigue without feeling about feeling about feeling about icy water.”

Colonel Gracie was a figure built in New York and Washington Society.

His father was an officer in the Confederation Army during the Civil War. Colonel Gracie was also an offender of Archibald Gracie, which built the official residence of the New York mayor in 1799.

After the news of the sinking of Titanik, it was known that Colonel Gracie was unknown, his wife, Constance Schack Gracie, who was missing for non-relation.

Mrs. Gracie had not been on the boat but had left the city Avoid being sent In another community’s Luacy court, Mary E. Gage, According to the New York Times.

In the days following the Titanic disaster, the daughter of the “Rose Gracie” was asked about the daughter of her mother, where his mother was about the fate of his father, Times reported.

He said Colonel Gracie was healing from a surgery and in a letter to return home with a stronger constitution.

“Thinking is very terrible.”