For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...

Letters were how people processed the world before text messages and emails condensed our thoughts into brief communication bursts. They served as conduits for love, revolution, persuasion, and ...

When 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 ...

A letter written by Titanic survivor Archibald Gracie, written while aboard the doomed ship, sold Saturday for $400,000 at Henry Aldridge & Son, blowing away the record for a Titanic letter by more ...

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 ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

A "prophetic" letter written aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic ocean liner has been auctioned in England for a stunning sum. The letter was sold by Wiltshire-based Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. on April 26 ...

Henry Aldridge & Son / AP When 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 ...