The letter was sold to a private collector from the United States on Saturday, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England. The hammer price far exceeded the initial ...

The letter was written days before the ill-fated steamship tragically went down in the north Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg, killing around 1,500. A private collector from the US ...

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 ...

Col. Archibald Gracie wrote the letter while traveling on the Titanic days before the ship sank and plunged him into the icy North Atlantic. By Amanda Holpuch Days before the Titanic struck an ...