This collection contains nine accounts of the shipwreck of the S. S. Ville du Havre copied from various letters and publications. The first six folders contain chapters from Personal Recollections of the Wreck of the Ville du Havre and the Loch Earn by N. Weiss, delegate to the Evangelical Alliance Conference in 1873, translated from the French. The book was published in 1875 by Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, New York. Chapter II is missing. Folder 7 contains an account by Mary Adams Bulkley published by James A. Anderson. Reminiscences: The Merchant Marine by W. W. Urquhart in folder 12 was published in the 1890s by Knickerbocker Press in New York. The remaining accounts were published in newspapers or copied from letters. Each folder contains an original typescript and a copy, none of which are dated.