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95 CLAY STREET. NEWARK, N.J.
September 20th. 1894.
My dear Sir, While in East Hampton about the twenty seventh of August I stopped in your mill, and you showed me a lot of hickory sticks about 14 inches long that you said had been used in the gearing of the mill for about seventy five years, and had only been taken out some five years ago.
I want to ask you if I may have four of those
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95 CLAY STREET NEWARK, N.J.
old pieces of hickory. I would be glad to pay for them if they are of any value to you, or if it sending them will cause you any trouble, I would only be too glad to return it in some way.
I suppose this is a rather peculiar request, and I know it is asking a great deal from you, whom I only met once, but I am very anxious to get four of those worn out sticks, both as as a souvenir of the mill and for us as a frame of a photograph of the mill. If you do not care to part with them, or if you