Letter by high-profile Titanic survivor sells for record £300,000

Wiltshire auctioneer Aldridge and Son says its sale price for the letter card by Col Gracie is the highest ever achieved for a letter written onboard the Titanic. Photograph: Henry Aldridge & Son/PA

A letter written by a survivor of the Titanic disaster has sold for a record £300,000 at auction.

First-class passenger Col Archibald Gracie wrote The Truth About the Titanic, which described his experience of the 15 April 1912 tragedy that claimed 1,500 lives on the vessel’s journey to New York.