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Who Is To Blame Titanic

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Over a century after the R.M.S. Titanic sank into the icy waters of the North Atlantic, artifacts from the disaster—which claimed the life of 1,500 people—continue to captivate collectors and history buffs. On October 21, 2017, a letter recovered from the wreckage broke a world record by selling for 126,000 British pounds, or about 166,000 U.S. dollars.
The letter comes from Oskar Holverson, a first-class passenger and U.S. businessman who perished in the water. He’d written the letter to his mother on April 13, 1912, the day before the ship hit the iceberg that would take it down. Within a week of the Titanic’s sinking, recovery ships sailed to the wreckage site to collect personal effects and dead bodies, many of which were floating at the …show more content…

The recently auctioned letter is also valuable because it describes the ship, the food, and even fellow passenger John Jacob Astor, at the time the richest man in the world. “He looks like any other human being even tho [sic] he has millions of money,” Holverson wrote of Astor. “They sit out on deck with the rest of us.”
Three years ago, the same auction house that sold Holverson’s letter auctioned the last known letter to be written on the Titanic for £119,000. Before that, the auction house sold a letter written by violinist and Titanic band leader Wallace Hartley for £112,000. In contrast to Holverson’s letter, which was reclaimed from his person, Titanic’s “last letter” was carried onto a lifeboat in a survivor’s pocket, and Wallace’s letter was sent at a mail stop in Queenstown, Ireland—now called Cobh—that Titanic made before crossing the Atlantic.

This article was mostly about how they found a letter written by a men writing to his mother, when the police went to pick up bodys and remains fro the titanic they found the letter and gave it to his mother the letter was now bought for about 166,000 dollars and so far it was the mostexspenive letter ever

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