Maxwell wrote a brief account of this, his first and probably only stab at being a man of action, in the preface to his Collected Stories, published in 1995, his cue to acknowledge that "three-quarters of the material I would need for the rest of my writing life was already at my disposal". When the captain had read Maxwell's letter, he told him that the ship had been in dock for four years Morgan could not afford to sail her the captain was quitting the next day. A letter of introduction led him to a four-masted schooner sitting at anchor in a bay near Coney Island, which belonged to the financier JP Morgan. In 1933, when William Maxwell was 25 years old and an aspiring novelist, he decided to go to sea, "so that I would have something to write about".
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