Folder One includes a photograph of the CALIFORNIAN, taken from the deck of the CARPATHIA, on 15 Apr 1912 and a handwritten transcript of an interview with Charles Victor Groves (1957) with subsequent correspondence and a CALIFORNIAN chronology (compiled 1964). Folder Four has mutiple copies of the same letter. Related Material LMQ/6/2/2.

Administrative / biographical background
The CARPATHIA was a Cunard transatlantic passenger steamship best known for rescuing survivors from the TITANIC. Charles Victor Groves was the Third Officer of the CALIFORNIAN.