Herreshoff #190207es [Dinghy for #578s Azor]

"[Item Transcription:] [Handwritten (in ink) signed letter:] I hope that I did not sound, at the telephone, as if I were trying to get you to squeeze in as much as possible for the price agreed upon. This was very far from my intention. I wished, merely, to make clear the terms of our first agreement, as I understand them to abide by these terms. Until I read the contract, [p. 2] I understood that the $1500 was to include the knockabout [#622s CURLEW] with outfit complete and tender [#190422es] with outfit complete, which I supposed to be similar to that of the AZOR's tender [#190207es]. Your brother said in his letter: 'with an 11 1/2ft tender complete with oars etc'. This, I took it, include all that our present tender holds, especially as [p. 3] the size was the same.
This I am not asking more for the same price, but I am simply restating my first offer. I am sorry not to have been more specific in the first place.
Hoping to hear favorably from you, I am
Very sincerely,
Henry S. Forbes" (Source: Forbes, Henry S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_23190. Correspondence, Folder 68. (1904 ?)-05-18.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Handwritten (in ink) signed letter with 'Naushon' letterhead:] I have been meaning to tell you before this that the little knockabout CURLEW [#622s CURLEW] is thoroughly satisfactory from stem to stern. She steers & balances splendidly & is stiff in a strong breeze.
She is an improvement on the VIREO [#459s], we think [p. 2] with her house & longer stern. The tender [#190422es], also, is first rate & is great fun to have with the AZOR's [#190207es].
Thanking you for your time & thought, I am
Very sincerely yours,
Henry S. Forbes" (Source: Forbes, Henry S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_23140. Correspondence, Folder 68. (1904 ?)-07-31.)
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"11'-6" Boat for Sailing. Made of Columbia's Lifeboat [unreadable]. Sheer raised 1 1/4" (on 12" scale) above figures in Book for 76-[unreadable]. Sheer raised 2 1/2" above [drawing] 76-17. Thwarts raised 2 1/2" above [drawing] 76-17. Leg of mutton sail. Yoke & Tiller. Keel, white oak, 1 3/16" wide x 1 7/16" deep. Apron, white oak, 2 1/2" wide x 7/16" deep. Timbers, white oak, 1/2" [unreadable], spaced 6". Gunwale, white oak, 1 3/16" x 7/16". Sheer strake, white oak, 3" x 7/8" x [?]32". Thwart strainers, white oak, 3/8" x 7/8". Stem, 1" x 2 1/2" sizee [?] white oak, steamed & bent. Stern, 3/4" butternut. Planking, 1/4" cedar lapped in narow strakes. Thwarts, 7/8" butternut. Foot-boards, 7[?]/16" cedar. [No. of boats built] 1, [When built] July 4 [1902], 578 [Azor] [as per notes on drawing 28-23]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"This vessel's building date was determined from notes on the original plan. Plan 28-23 from which this boat was built was drawn 1901-08. #578s Azor (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1901-11-30. This boat's contract or building date is 216 days after #578s Azor was contracted for." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

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