Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon 's letter to a friend , written just weeks after the Titanic sank , sells for nearly $ 12,000 . Fewer than one-third of the more than 2,200 people aboard Titanic survived , hundreds fewer than could have lived if all of the lifeboats had been deployed and filled . She tells friend of `` disgraceful '' treatment after rescue , says RR Auction , which sold the letter . She and her husband were haunted by allegations about their conduct as the ship sank in April 1912 . The couple had been on board with other passengers when it was struck amidships by an iceberg off Newfoundland ( see below ).
Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon 's letter to a friend , written just weeks after the Titanic sank , sells for nearly $ 12,000 . She tells friend of `` disgraceful '' treatment after rescue , says RR Auction , which sold the letter . She and her husband were haunted by allegations about their conduct as the ship sank in April 1912 . The couple had been on board with other passengers when it was struck amidships by an iceberg off Newfoundland ( see below ).