13 Artifacts Recovered From The Titanic Wreck

In 2017, a waterlogged letter sold for £126,000, or the equivalent of $160,000 today. Of course, this was no ordinary bit of mail. Not only had the letter in question come from the Titanic, but, remarkably, someone had managed to fish the still legible missive from the ocean and, eventually, deliver it to its recipient.

The actual content of the letter, dated just a day before the disaster, isn't especially interesting. The writer, Alexander Oskar Holverson, was a businessman traveling home to New York with his wife, Mary. Writing to his mother, Holverson couldn't help but comment on the grand size of the ship. He also noted that the ridiculously rich John Jacob Astor IV even deigned to sit on the deck just like normal folk — at least, the ones who could spring for a first-class ticket. 

Astor and Holverson both died in the disaster, while both of their respective wives survived. At least both men's bodies were found, and Holverson's letter was recovered from a pocketbook on his body. Even though it lacked postage and was damaged by seawater, it was still delivered to his mother.

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