Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA letter written by Titanic second-class passenger Henry Price Hodges just days before the ship sank has sold for a record £60,000 at auction. Mr Hodges penned the letter to his friend Hector Young on 10 April 1912, describing the fine weather and good atmosphere on board the vessel. The letter, considered a “rare” and “historically priceless snapshot” of life from a second-class perspective, was sold by Henry Aldridge and Son of Devizes.Mr Hodges died on 15 April when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, with his body later recovered and buried in Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Canada. An "extremely rare" US one-dollar bill recovered from third-class passenger Ernest Tomlin also fetched £37,000 at the same auction, almost quadrupling its estimate. In fullDoomed Titanic passenger’s final letter sells for record sum at auctionMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Titanic passenger’s haunting letter sells for record £60,000
Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA letter written by Titanic second-class passenger Henry Price Hodges just days before the ship sank has sold for a record £60,000 at auction. Mr Hodges penned the letter to his friend Hector Young on 10 April 1912, describing the fine weather and good atmosphere on board the vessel. The letter, considered a “rare” and “historically priceless snapshot” of life from a second-class perspective, was sold by Henry Aldridge and Son of Devizes.Mr Hodges died on 15 April when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, with his body later recovered and buried in Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Canada. An "extremely rare" US one-dollar bill recovered from third-class passenger Ernest Tomlin also fetched £37,000 at the same auction, almost quadrupling its estimate. In fullDoomed Titanic passenger’s final letter sells for record sum at auctionMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
