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liverpoolecho.co.uk	TITANIC LETTER WRITTEN BY CHIEF OFFICER HENRY WILDE TO GO UNDER THE HAMMER A HANDWRITTEN letter giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Titanic before its disastrous maiden voyage is set to go to auction. Chief Officer Henry Wilde – the Titanic’s second in command – wrote the letter onboard the ship before it set sail. The letter is expected to fetch between £25,000 and £30,000 when it is sold to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s completion on March 31....	3rd March 2012
Discovery Channel News	TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ...	13th April 2007
The Guardian	TITANIC LETTER EXPECTED TO FETCH £25,000 AT AUCTION A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner....	30th March 2010
	WW1 LETTER FROM THE FRONT - BY DANIEL BUCKLEY A letter to his mother from US infantryman Daniel Buckley, originally from Co. Cork, Ireland. Buckley was killed a month before the end of the war. He served with Company K of the 165th US Infantry, and wrote copious missive, some of ...
Torquay Directory	LETTER FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING The Late Mr. Forbes Julian.-Mrs. Forbes Julian, of Redholme, has been honoured by receiving, through Viscount Knollys, a letter expressing the sympathy of his Majesty the King with her in the loss of her husband in the Titanic disaster. The letter r...	15th May 1912
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC LETTER RETURNING TO BELFAST A letter penned on board the Titanic by a Belfast doctor to his mother is to be brought back to Belfast for exhibition. The letter, from assistant ship surgeon Dr John Edward Simpson, was written on notepaper headed RMS Titanic and brought ashore at Cobh, County Cork. From there it was posted to his mother, Elizabeth, who lived in south Belfast....	12th March 2012
BBC News	TITANIC LETTER SELLS FOR A RECORD Â£55,000 A letter from a first-class passenger on board the ill-fated Titanic has been sold at auction for Â£55,000....	20th April 2010
	BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...	11th July 1912
Irish Independent	IRISH TITANIC LETTER UP FOR AUCTION A LETTER on ship's stationery, written by Ireland's only first-class passenger on the Titanic, is expected to fetch more than €50,000 when it is auctioned next month....	21st August 2006
	STRAUS LETTER A letter dated 23 April 1912, authorising Maurice Rothschild, a nephew of Isidor Straus, to claim any recovered remains and effects of his lost uncle and aunt....
World Records Academy	MOST EXPENSIVE LETTER FROM TITANIC-WORLD RECORD SET BY SPINK SMYTHE letter, dated April 10, 1912, from a first class passenger onboard the Titanic (written by passenger George Graham of Harriston of Canada, a sales manager for the Eaton's department store company, to a business colleague in Berlin, Germany) was sold at auction by Spink Smythe in New York City for $16,100-setting the world record for the Most expensive letter from Titanic....	24th February 2009
BBC News	TITANIC LETTER COULD FETCH £9,000 A letter penned by a passenger of the doomed Titanic which sank in 1912, killing 1,522 people on board, is expected to raise £9,000 at auction.Charles Jones, who worked for the Colgate firm in New York, was returning to the US after a UK trip to buy sheep from Dorset farmer James Foot....	18th March 2008
boston.com	RELATIVES OF TITANIC OFFICER SEEK RETURN OF LETTER The descendants of a surgeon who died on the Titanic are appealing for help in purchasing a letter he wrote from the doomed ship. A two-page note John Edward Simpson wrote to his mother days before the ship sank in 1912 is to be auctioned in Long Island, New York, next month. His relatives cannot afford to bid for the artifact but want it returned to Simpson’s hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Simpson’s great nephew John Martin said Sunday that he hopes a benefactor will buy the letter and put it on public display in Belfast....	27th February 2012
Long Island Report	BELFAST TITANIC LETTER FAILS TO SELL AT LONG ISLAND AUCTION The bidding started at $27,000. Within 10 seconds, it was at $33,000. Suddenly silence, no more bids. The auctioneer gave “fair warning” at $33,000, but what he said next drew murmurs from what had all day been a quiet crowd of about 30 bidders. “It’s going to pass at $33,000; it does not find a home today,” announced Philip Weiss, the auctioneer and owner of Philip Weiss Auctions in Oceanside. The item in question was a handwritten letter from Titanic assistant surgeon Dr John Edward Simpson to his mother in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The letter was emblazoned with the letterhead “On board R.M.S. Titanic,” and was dated April 11, 1912—just four days before the ship sank on April 15....	4th March 2012
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC LETTER 'SECURED FOR CITY' A mystery benefactor has stepped in to ensure a valuable letter written by an officer days before he died on the Titanic will return to his home town. There were fears that the note Dr John Simpson penned to his mother on board the doomed liner would be snapped up by a private collector and lost from public view forever when it was put up for auction in New York with a 34,000 US dollar reserve price....	13th March 2012
dailymail.co.uk	THEY’RE EVEN SELLING THE DECKCHAIRS! EVERYONE’S CASHING IN ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY A deckchair that graced the decks of the Titanic is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale. The chair - one of seven known to exist, will be auctioned along with other lots from the ill-fated ship in the approach to the 100th Anniversary of the sinking ship. Other memorabilia available includes a letter from the ship's British orchestra leader Wallace Hartley, a rare pay slip from a crewman for his six days of service and a gold locket. The deck chair is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale Hartley whose orchestra ‘played on’ whilst going down with the ship, penned the two-page letter, written on ‘Titanic’ letterhead to his parents on his first day on board. The letter dated April 10, 1912 reads: 'Just a line to say we have got away all right. It’s been a bit of a rush but I am just getting a little settled....	29th March 2012
	LETTER TO HIS MOTHER Mrs. Thomas Mudd, The Street, Hunting Field, Halesworth, Suffolk. Dear Mother, Arrived at Southampton safe - The Titanic is a splendid boat and you hardly know you are moving. Will write more fully later Your loving Son Tom. PS ...	1912
Torquay Directory	LETTER FROM HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN The Late Mr. Forbes Julian.-Mrs. Forbes Julian has been honoured by receiving a gracious letter of sympathy from her Majesty the Queen from Buckingham Palace. It reads: “Her Majesty feels very much for you in the irreparable loss which you have sus...	8th May 1912
St James Parish Magazine	VICAR'S LETTER The awful tragedy of the Titanic is so much in the minds of us all that I cannot help referring to it in my letter, if only to say how widespread and sincere is the sympathy felt for Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mountain. Their nephew was Sixth officer of the i...	May 1912
xtra.ca	TITANIC: GILDED LIVES ON A FATAL VOYAGE “Looking over the passenger list, I only find three or four people I know, but there are a good many of our people I think.” Major Archibald Willingham Butt, who died during the Titanic disaster, was thought to be one of our people. Francis Millet died in the Titanic disaster. John Singer Sargent's famous painting, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, was painted in his garden. This intriguing line comes from a letter dated April 11, 1912 penned by the painter Francis Millet to his friend Alfred Parsons. By the time the letter reached its destination, its author was dead. If April 11, 1912 seems like a reasonably inauspicious date, the events that transpired four days later are permanently inscribed onto the Western psyche. The letter’s salutation instantly reveals the reason why: “On board RMS Titanic.” ...	14th March 2012
mirror.co.uk	SCHOOLGIRL'S UNSEEN LETTER TELLS OF TITANIC ACCIDENT BEFORE IT EVEN SET OFF A LETTER written onboard the Titanic by a child reveals the ship was involved in an accident before it set off on its doomed maiden voyage. Eileen Lenox Conyngham, 11, wrote the note just four days before the liner sank 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada. The youngster told her nursery nurse Louisa Sterling that Titanic "broke the ropes" and rammed into the Oceanic while "floating about" Southampton dock....	8th March 2012
	SILVA TRIBUTE Dear Mrs Silva:I have duly received your letter of May 13th. It is impossible for me to express in words how sorry I feel because of the untimely death of Tom. I learned to love him. He was a manly fellow, of noble character, and every inch...	3rd June 1915
	LETTER FROM FRASER'S DAUGHTER ''I was only two years old at the time and my brother six weeks old, my mother died at the age of forty-nine. When war was declared my brother James choose to serve in the Navy. After a short training at HMS Collingwood, I think I am correct in sa...	1991
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express	LETTER FROM MR. H. P. HODGES Mr. Hector Young, hon. secretary of the Newtown Ward Conservative Association, received a letter from Mr. H. P. Hodges, the well-known Southampton tradesman, dated April 10th who was a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic, returning thanks for an expre...	20th April 1912
	ROGER BRICOUX ON THE CARPATHIA Letter sent by cellist on 17 March 1912...	17th March 1912
thesun.co.uk	'I WILL BE BACK IN 17 DAYS': THE RARE LETTER FROM DOOMED TITANIC'S CHIEF OFFICER A POIGNANT letter written by the Titanic's second most senior officer who wished to show his family the "wonderful" ship on his return is expected to make £35,000 at auction. comment on this story 1 comment Chief Officer Henry Wilde was transferred on to the doomed liner at the last minute and wrote to his two nieces with the exciting news on headed stationary. He described the vessel as "wonderful" and the "latest thing in shipbuilding" and hoped the two young women, Norah and Edie, would get to see it in person. ...	1st March 2012
St. Ives Times & Express	MR. CARBINES INTERRED Through the courtesy of Mr. Carbines — brother of the late Mr. William Carbines, a passenger on the "Titanic" and who has only just arrived in St. Ives from America — we are able to give some information from a letter which Mr. William Cogar, loca...	10th May 1912
	JONES ADMIRATION FOR COUNTESS OF ROTHES Jones apparently admired the Countess of Rothes very much indeed. In fact he later presented her with the brass number plate of the boat and in later years they maintained a correspondence. The countess's cousin Miss Gladys Cherry was also in ...
Washington Times	TAFT DENIES BUTT WENT ON MISSION TO THANK PONTIFF President Sends Letter to Tennessean Explaining Trip of Military Aide --- President Taft today denied Major Archibald Butt was returning from a mission to Rome when he went to his death on the luckless Tiatnic. ...	22nd April 1912
	LETTER FROM TITANIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WILLIAM KELLY TO HIS MOTHER Kelly tells his mother what he thinks of Southampton and some of the Titanic's passengers....	10th December 1912
	LETTER FROM SARAH GILL TO THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA Stamp: RECEIVED Mrs. J. Gill AUG 3 1912 3 Griffin Road Provincial Secretary's Clevedon Office Somerset E...
Chicago Daily Tribune	OAK PARK TITANIC SURVIVOR (Photo: Mrs F. R. Kenyon) A letter written on board the Carpathia was received yesterday by Mrs. George P. Baldwin, 309 Linden avenue, Oak Park, announcing the death of F. R. Kenyon and the safety of Mrs. Kenyon, sister of Mrs. Baldwin...	21st April 1912
	LETTER FROM TITANIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WILLIAM KELLY TO JIM DEMPSEY A fascinating letter written just one month before Titanic sailed....	10th March 1912
Southern Evening Echo	UNTITLED GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ...	9th December 1952
Henry Aldridge & Son	TITANIC LETTER MAY FETCH £15000 An eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic will be the highlight of an auction of Titanic related artefacts this weekend. Laura Francatelli a servatn of Lucile Duff Gordon and Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon wrote the harrowing account for the 1912 British enquiry into the disaster presided over by Lord Mersey. Andrew Aldrifdge auctioneer was quoted "You see a lot of documents that talk briefly about the incident but this affidavit goes into strong details it talks about Lady Duff being sick the whole time about the lifeboat bobbing up and down about the screams" Aldridge suggests the letter may fetch £10000 to £15000 pounds. ...	11th October 2010
	LETTER FROM JACK BUTTERWORTH Prior to leaving on the Titanic, Jack had been courting his fiancee (a Miss May Hinton of Woolston, Southampton) and they had agreed to become engaged. Jack wrote the following letter (actual letter see next column) which was posted at Queenstown: (n...	1912
New York Times	ARCHIBALD GRACIE Prominent in Washington---His Wife's Whereabouts Not Known --- WASHINGTON , April 15---Archibald Gracie, one of the Titanic's passengers, is well known in Washington and New York society. His wife has recently attracted attention by le...	16th April 1912
	1928 LETTER FROM F. D. ROOSEVELT TO F. K. SEWARD
	IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 1)	16th February 1926
	IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 3)	2nd March 1926
	IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 2)	8th March 1926
	IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 4)	12th April 1926
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE TO HIS SISTER (1/2)	1912
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE TO HIS SISTER (2/2)	1912
	AMALGAMATED MUSICIANS' UNION ON ROGER BRICOUX Letter sent by the Amalgamated Musicians' Union to Bricoux' father...	25th June 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ...	17th April 1912
	TRANSCRIPT OF LETTER BY WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE Gateside Margery Park Rd Forest Gate E 15/03/12 My Dear Sister Just a line to let you know that I am still in the land of the living. You will see by the above address that I am at home. ...	1912
Chicago Tribune	OAK PARK WOMAN TITANIC SURVIVOR LETTER SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR WHILE ABOARD THE CARPATHIA SENT TO SISTER IN OAK PARK A letter written on board the Carpathi...	21st April 1912
	CONFUSION OVER A NAME: YROIS OR YVOIS John Lamoreau Almost since the Titanic sank there has been confusion over the name of a second class passenger. What we know for positive was that her first name was Henriette. She was traveling with film maker William Harbeck. They both lost t...
	LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w...	11th April 1912

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