Two letters sent by passengers who lost their lives when the Titanic sank in 1912 came to auction in the latter part of 2017: one of them posted before she sailed, the other recovered, along with the owner’s pocket book, when his body was pulled from the freezing Atlantic waters.
Both were written on the same, large format On board R.M.S.”Titanic” notepaper bearing the White Star Line pennant, but it was that written by Oskar Holverson the day before disaster struck that commanded most interest.
A letter found in his pocket when his body was recovered from the sea, it sold for £100,000 in an October 21 sale held by Henry Aldridge & Son (20/15/10% buyer’s premium) of Devizes, which has for many years specialised in the sale of such material.