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[[marginalia]] ansd Jun 30/19. [[/marginalia]]

William R. Griffiths
Real Estate
Douglaston, Long Island 
New York
Insurance Telephone

ACREAGE, PLOTS, LOTS, In and Out of City of New York
Restricted Dwelling Sites with Shore Front Rights
Unequalled Anywhere. - Residences For Sale
WESTERN COAL, OIL, FARMING and GRAZING LAND
HOT SPRINGS AND CALIFORNIA LAND

January, 8/19

DOUGLASTON is on a hill overlooking beautiful Little Neck Bay, an arm of Long Island Sound. Beautiful walks and drives - a hilly country. Near Motor Parkway. New School. Good stores. Golf, Yacht and Country Clubs - all excellent and prosperous - here or near by. 
Boating and Fishing. Bay stocked yearly with millions of smelts, big flounders, tom cods and crabs. 
Bathing on sand beach.  Public hall with stage, kitchen and bowling alley.
Here is the home of the Little Neck Clam and Saddle Rock Oyster, still to be had fresh from the bay. Thoroughly well drained section - no standing water - no malaria.
Driven-well water of high quality and clear as crystal, furnished public under high pressure.
Park & Tilford, Acker, Merrall & Condit, and all large Manhattan and Brooklyn stores deliver at the door free.

DOUGLAS MANOR. Famed for its rare trees and unequalled beauty is here - the present and future choicest suburb of America. Over a mile of shore front. Every plot has shore-front rights. 
Long Distance Trolley, running far east and west. Goes to Aviation Field - South Shore, Etc. 
RAILROAD double tracked and electrified. Oil sprinkled to prevent dust.
40 minutes to City Hall via Penna. Tunnels. Direct connection with all Rapid Transit Systems of N. Y. City.
22 minutes to Penna. Station, Manhattan, by express trains. All these times will soon be reduced.
Train service ample and convenient. One can dine at home and get to and from theatre or opera early or late.
To inspect property weekdays take P. M. trains 1.22 or 2.37 o'clock (Sat. also 1.41 and 2.02) Penna. Station. 
Sundays P.M. 20 minutes after the hour. From E. 34th St. P. M. 1 or 2.24 o'clock. Sundays 2 P. M. 
Come Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, or Sundays. Other days by appointment two days ahead.

Prof. Geo. H. Pepper

My dear Sir - It was May 1911 [[strikeout]] since [[/strikeout]] when I last heard from you.

Have you, in the meantime, hand printed your book or pamphlet on the meaning of the designs on Navajo rugs?

R.H. Macy & Co. of 34th St. and Broadway N.Y. City have been keeping Navajo rugs (blankets, single and double saddles and mats) and amongst the trash is quite a number of really excellent woollen rugs.

Their buyer said that it would aid sales if they had such a "folder" as I told him could be gotten up.

To aid in such way would not become a realization of your scientific information,