Letter to mother of Titanic victim sells for $166,000

Letter found on the body of a victim of the Titanic sinking sold for a record $166,000.

Letter from Alexander Oskar Holverson. Photo: Henry Aldridge & Son.

First-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson wrote a letter to his mother describing his impressions of the Titanic, praising the food and music on board. "If all goes well, we will arrive in New York on Wednesday," Holverson wrote the day before the ship's fateful collision with an iceberg, according to Reuters.

Holverson was a Minnesota-born merchant who sailed with his wife, Mary Alice, who survived the shipwreck.

The Holverson family auctioned the letter on October 21 at an event organized by Henry Aldridge & Son in the southern English town of Devizes. It sold for $166,000, a record high for a letter from the ill-fated ship.

The Titanic before the accident. Photo: Wiki.

"The price shows that there is still a strong public interest in the Titanic and its crew and passengers," said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.

The Titanic was an ocean liner that made maritime history when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, in the Atlantic Ocean, while traveling from Southampton to New York. More than 1,500 people died in the incident.

According to VNE