Titanic letter goes to auction
A letter home to Dewsbury from doomed Titanic bandleader Wallace Hartley will go under the hammer at auction tomorrow.
In his only letter to his parents from the ill-fated liner, the heroic band leader, pictured, writes on April 10, 1912: “This is a fine ship… We have a fine band… I shall probably arrive home on the Sunday morning.”
But that was not to be as Hartley and his seven bandsmen went down with Titanic on April 15.