It reads: "Reg, I’m really sorry that it had to be this way, but I think we both knew this was coming. I mean, I tried to tell you the way I felt in New York, which was really bad timing with your dad ...

"It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey's end before I pass judgment on her," Colonel Archibald Gracie wrote on April 10, 1912 A letter written by a Titanic survivor while onboard the ship has ...

Days before the Titanic struck an iceberg, a first-class passenger, Col. Archibald Gracie, described the vessel in a letter written while on board: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey’s ...

It’s very gratifying to be people’s fathers who don’t have one,” said Buz Ecker, 67. “And it’s very gratifying to write a ...

"My father had disappeared five or six years before, after a custody battle and then a failure to pay child support." ...

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A letter written onboard the Titanic just days before the ship sank has sold for nearly $400,000 — far surpassing auction expectations. Antique auctioneer Henry Aldridge & Son announced the sale ...