A letter written by a Titanic survivor to a friend in New York sold at auction this week for $11,875 in Boston.The remarks were written on Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon’s personal letter dated May 27, 1912 —six weeks after Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage —and seem to indicate that she and her husband, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, didn’t receive such a warm welcome home after their rescue.
“According to the way we’ve been treated by England on our return we didn’t seem to have done the right thing in being saved at all!!!! Isn’t it disgraceful?” Lady Duff-Gordon wrote. The London fashion designer and her husband, a Scottish, escaped by boarding Lifeboat 1, which transported 12 passengers despite having capacity for 40. Less than one-third of the more than 2,200 people aboard Titanic survived, hundreds fewer than could have lived if all of the lifeboats had been filled.
Lifeboat 1 became known as the “Money Boat”. Rumors that the Duff-Gordons tried to stop the crew from making other rescues were never proved, but Lady Duff-Gordon later said her husband was “brokenhearted over the negative coverage for the rest of his life”.
Many people remain fascinated by the Titanic tragedy and will for years to come. A cup and saucer from the Titanic sold for $13,750. Also auctioned was a letter Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia sent to a former Vogue cover model he met at a New York party in 1980. In the letter, which sold for $32,500, Garcia tells the woman, “Pardon my handwriting, this is the first letter I’ve written in years.” He includes a sketch with the words, “Grateful Dead just played our first outdoor show of the year at a place called the Greek Theatre.”
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