Sub-series consists of material relating to various aspects of Groves' career and to projects she undertook, including her publishing projects. Some of the material was found loose, but most was arranged by Groves in files and binders. Included is documentation on her schooling, including material relating to the Aberdeen Model School, Montreal West High School, McGill University and Harvard University (note: the Harvard material includes a file on the Austrian painter and dramatist Oskar Kokoschka, including a letter from him during his exile in England 1940). There are files documenting Groves' travels abroad. There are files relating to her teaching careers at Wheaton College and McMaster University, with teaching notes as well as correspondence and other material. There is extensive material on her work with the American Friends Service Committee, including correspondence and reports on her experiences. There are files relating to her work with the National Gallery of Canada and with the National Gallery Association of Ottawa. There are also files documenting her philanthropic work, including files on Carleton University, A.Y. Jackson Secondary School, and the artist Victor Tolgesy. There are files on her writings, including a childhood story 1922, speeches and articles for various periodicals, manuscripts for her books based on her Lapland and Germany diaries, material for an unpublished autobiography, her translations of Jens Rosing, and material on various projects on A.Y. Jackson and H.A.C. Jackson. There is small amount of material documenting her own painting career and a binder of records documenting her art collection.
Sub-series also includes a sound recording that relates to Groves' interest in René Pomerleau and her involvement with the Mushrooms of Eastern Canada project. Recording consists of an interview with 82 year old Canadian author and mycologist René Pomerleau by host Francois Ricard for the program Positions, broadcast 18 September 1986. An individual who dedicated his life and career to mycology, the study of mushrooms, Pomerleau discusses the various stages and highlights of his career including his education at the School of Agriculture of Sainte-Anne-de-La-Pocatière, the French Canadian Association for the Advancement of Sciences (ACFAS), and his studies of the diseases of plants and trees.
