From the Time Capsule

I went through an old file cabinet drawer yesterday to see if it was time to send some of the paper to (1) the shredder, or (2) the archives.

The stuff in the cabinet dates from 1975-1982, my earliest years of trying to write professionally. Right up front was a massive research file for the Privateers & Gentlemen series. Nautical charts, articles xeroxed from various dictionaries of national biography, extracts from nautical dictionaries, pages of notes that looked as if they’d been thr...