Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her." ...

A remarkable Titanic letter has just sold for nearly $400,000 at auction. The letter, written by Colonel Archibald Gracie, a ...

The missive from the doomed ship read, “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.” ...

The letter was sold by Wiltshire-based Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. on April 26. It was written by Archibald Gracie IV on April 10, 1912 – just five days before the ship sank on April 15.

More about the Titanic letter sold at auction The revered lettercard was written by Archibald Gracie, a well-known survivor of the Titanic disaster. In the message, dated April 10, 1912 ...

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 ...

"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 Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been ...

Henry Aldridge & Son / AP 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 ...

In the note, written to the seller’s great-uncle on April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys ...

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 ...