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Titanic passenger's final letter sells for $166K

Titanic passenger's final letter sells for $166K
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(CNN) - A letter written on the doomed Titanic voyage sold for a small fortune.

The document, written by passenger Alexander Holverson, earned $166,000 at auction.

That's about $60,000 more than was expected.

The letter is dated April 13, 1912, one day before the legendary ship hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic.

Halverson wrote the note to his mother.

It contains the eerie line: "If all goes well we will arrive in New York Wednesday a.m."

Holverson was among the 1,500 people to die on the Titanic.

About 700 people, including Holverson's wife, survived the incident.

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