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Titanic Letter Sells For $40,700

Although it didn’t originally meet its reserve at a sale earlier this month at Philip Weiss Auctions, a two-page handwritten letter by a ship’s surgeon on the Titanic met a happier end than the vessel it describes. After the auction, a museum in Ireland called Titanic Belfast raised the funds to meet the $36,000 reserve for the document. Commissions raised the selling price at the Long Island auction house to $40,700.