Letter written aboard the Titanic to be auctioned

The British liner Titanic sails out of Southampton, England, A file photo.

In April 1912, Esther Hart wrote home about her journey to a new life. “The sailors say we have had a wonderful passage up to now,” said Ms. Hart, a passenger on the Titanic.

The handwritten note is expected to sell for up to 100,000 pounds ($168,000) at an auction in England on Saturday.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the letter was “quite simply the jewel in the crown of Titanic manuscript ephemera.”

Prices for Titanic memorabilia have soared in recent years. In October, a violin believed to have been played on the doomed vessel sold for more than 1 million pounds.