- A letter written by Titanic second-class passenger Henry Price Hodges just days before the ship sank has sold for a record £60,000 at auction.
- Mr Hodges penned the letter to his friend Hector Young on 10 April 1912, describing the fine weather and good atmosphere on board the vessel.
- The letter, considered a “rare” and “historically priceless snapshot” of life from a second-class perspective, was sold by Henry Aldridge and Son of Devizes.
- Mr Hodges died on 15 April when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, with his body later recovered and buried in Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Canada.
- An "extremely rare" US one-dollar bill recovered from third-class passenger Ernest Tomlin also fetched £37,000 at the same auction, almost quadrupling its estimate.
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