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A "prophetic" letter penned by Archibald Gracie IV aboard the doomed Titanic on April 10, 1912, has been sold at auction for an impressive six-figure sum.
Archibald Gracie IV was 54 years old when he boarded the Titanic on April 10, 1912. He is known for authoring "The Truth about the Titanic," which details his experiences surviving the shipwreck.
A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic's most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for $399,000 at auction. In the note, written to the seller's great-uncle ...
On the day that Archibald Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, he wrote a letter to an acquaintance in London offering his first impressions of the ship. Gracie, a former American ...
When first-class passenger Col. Archibald Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, he drafted a letter to a friend. "It is a fine ship," he wrote, "but I shall await ...
A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors ... first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my ...
On April 10, 1912, Archibald Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton and got comfortable in his first-class cabin. As crew members readied the ship for its inaugural voyage across the Atlantic ...
"It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey's end before I pass judgment on her," Colonel Archibald Gracie wrote on April 10, 1912 A letter written by a Titanic survivor while onboard the ship ...