Collection of three letters related to the insurance claim made by the family of Titanic victim Charles Joseph Shorney. First is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the White Star Line's law firm Hill Dickinson & Co., December 26, [1915], to "A. Shorney," presumably Charles Shorney's father, Austin, responding to a letter from him [not present], in part: "The statement published in the papers recently refers to the settlement effected in connection with certain American proceedings and only concern those persons who had lodged claims in those proceedings." Second is his response, a handwritten letter signed "A. Shorney," January 3, 1916, in part: "I am very much surprised, that the W. S. Directors, should try to shirk their responsibility, in my case, as I have a just claim, and I quite thought they would be prepared to make me an amicable offer, as it has been proved beyond doubt it was through the negligence of their servants we were robbed of our dear ones, and I am given to understand, one tenth of sum published was for British Claimants." The third, January 4, 1916, is a carbon copy of Hill Dickinson's response, in part: "We have no knowledge of the arrangement to which you refer regarding British claimants but in any event we think that British claimants would mean claimants who, although resident here, took proceedings in the States." In overall very good to fine condition, with scattered creasing. Charles Joseph Shorney was traveling on the Titanic as a third-class passenger, bound for New York where he planned to set up a taxicab business. He perished in the disaster and his body, if recovered, was never identified.
