A letter written by a passenger on the Titanic describing the 'wonderful passage' - hours before the ship hit an iceberg - has sold at auction for £119,000 ($200,000). Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the handwritten note was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder at an auction in Devizes, western England, on Saturday. The price, which includes a fee known as the buyer's premium, topped the pre-sale estimate of £100,000 ($168,000). Last missive: The envelope of a letter written by Esther Hart and her seven-year-old daughter Eva as they sailed aboard RMS Titanic in April 1912, shortly before the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean
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A letter penned aboard the Titanic just before it hit an iceberg and sank has sold at action for £119,000 ($200,000)
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The letter was from mother and daughter Esther and Eva Hart to Esther's mother in London
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It survived in a sheepskin coat pocket that Esther's husband Benjamin wrapped around her before she and Eva, seven, entered a lifeboat
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The pair survived, but Benjamin Hart was one of the many who died
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The letter was expected to go for £100,000 ($168,000)
In it, @placeholder wrote that the family was enjoying the journey, and that they expected to arrive at their destination early.