In her diary in September 1940, Anaïs Nin wrote, “After much searching I found an apartment I could afford. Sixty dollars a month, a skylight studio, on the top floor of 215 West Thirteenth Street. Five flights up. A very large, high-ceilinged room, half of the ceiling an inclined skylight, the whole length of it, twelve windows in all. A small kitchen, with barely enough room for stove and icebox.” It was there that she used this letterhead, featuring a green woodblock-style emblem above the address. Interestingly, no diaeresis (¨) sits above the "i" in her name—an omission also noticed in a letterhead Nin used decades later.
Source: James Winkler
Another wonderful design and trip back in time. I lived for 20 years in this neighborhood, on Bank Street, in the 1980s and 90s. Wonderful place.