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"Your letter of the 26th, stating no contract must be permitted to interfere with that of the U States has been duly received. Sir, I have laid my self under no obligation that will interfere with said contract. But in so large an establishment as this there will be some work that will not meet the approbation of the inspector. This work must be disposed of in some other way, and having a quantity of work of this description on hand, I thought proper to send it to Boston for the purpose of furnishing the privateers of that place which was then fitting out, not thinking that you would consider it a violation of my engagement with the U States."
- letter from Simeon North to General Callendar Irvine, January 31, 1815
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AS PICTURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK THE WILLIAM LOCKE COLLECTION BY SELLERS