Atlanta company discovers letter from Titanic
Atlanta Business Chronicle
RMS Titanic Inc. (OTC BB: SOST), the Atlanta company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic, has discovered that a suitcase brought up from the wreck site this past summer contained the personal belongings of a seventeen-year-old man named Edgar Samuel Andrew.
Among the suitcase contents, the company found an ironic letter written by Andrew before the Titanic's demise.
Andrew, a citizen of Argentina, boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, not far from where he was attending school. Andrew bought a ticket to board the steamship Oceanic, but due to a coal strike, he was forced to change his ticket and go aboard the Titanic. He wrote:
"You figure, Josey, I had to leave on the 17th this (month) aboard the 'Oceanic', but due to the coal strike that steamer cannot depart, so I have to go one week earlier on board the 'Titanic'. It really seems unbelievable that I have to leave a few days before your arrival, but there's no help for it, I've got to go.
"You figure, Josey, I am boarding the greatest steamship in the world, but I don't really feel proud of it at all, right now I wish the `Titanic' were lying at the bottom of the ocean."
The suitcase and its contents will undergo conservation so that they can be displayed along with other recovered objects in a traveling Titanic exhibit.
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