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Archibald Gracie wrote a letter from aboard the Titanic five days before it sank. It has sold at auction for the equivalent of $399,000. Henry Aldridge & Son/via AP hide caption
toggle caption Henry Aldridge & Son/via APWhen first-class passenger Col. Archibald Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, he drafted a letter to a friend.
"It is a fine ship," he wrote, "but I shall await my journey's end before I pass judgment on her."
Five days later, the "unsinkable" ship struck an iceberg and sank in the frigid waters off Newfoundland, killing some 1,500 of the vessel's roughly 2,200 passengers.
Now, Gracie's eerily prescient letter has sold at auction to an anonymous bidder for a record-breaking $399,000 — nearly five times its expected price. The auction took place on Saturday in Devizes, England.