This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2015
Captain Arthur Rostron autograph letter signed on ''Cunard R.M.S. Mauretania'' stationery, dated 19 August from New York. Rostron was Captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia when it rescued the survivors of the Titanic which fatefully sank on 15 April 1912. Letter is addressed to a Miss Helen Curtis of Stoughton, Massachusetts, giving biographical information which she asked for. Signed ''A.H. Rostron''. One page letter in bold, black ink measures 4.5'' x 7''. Intersecting folds and a slightly uneven left edge. Pencil notations to verso in an unknown hand. Very good condition.
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