Formerly the country estate of the late General Harrison Grey Otis, it has always been one of the show places of Southern California. The main residence, standing on the summit of a low hill a half mile from the highway, represents General Otis' conception of a typical, modern Spanish-American home, with its broad arcades and spacious central patio.

It is from the hundred acres of rolling land between the residence and the highway that I invite you to choose your home-site and become my neighbor, enjoying with me the peace and beauty that is Tarzana. Here you may build the home of our dreams -- and expression of your own individuality, embodying in an artistic whole those practical features which make a home livable as well as beautiful -- the little essential refinements that you have missed in other homes and determined to have some day in your own.

Tarzana Canyon winds into the mountains back of Tarzana and it is in the mouth of this canyon, behind The Hill upon which my home is built, that we raise our Berkshshire swine, our Guernsey cattle and our saddle horses. 

If you have children they will find here, as my children have, a wonderful, new world beside which the artificial interests of the city are dwarfed to insignificance; and you , too, will find new interests, the cultivation of which will add years of buoyant health to your life.

Do you love golf or tennis? Fifteen minutes from Tarzana lies the beautiful Hollywood Country Club. There is no finer golf course in Southern California and their tennis courts are equally modern and never crowded. 

Do you love surf bathing and the ocean? You can get both forty-five minutes away through the scenic Topanga Canyon five miles west of Tarzana.

Do you love riding and hiking? The Santa Monica Mountains at the foot of which Tarzana nestles offer unlimited enjoyment in either sport. Five minutes from your door step, and you are in a mountain wilderness untouched by man, where deer and coyote and mountain lion still lead their wild untrammelled lives. You can keep your saddle horse on your own property or board it at a nominal figure at the Tarzana Ranch stables. 

As you have never lived in Tarzana you may ask yourself, is Tarzana a good place to live? Here is the best answer I can give you: My profession is such that I can live anywhere in the world that I choose, and I have lived on Tarzana through four summer s and four winters with a total absence of less than two months, and I hope and expect to live here the rest of my life. 

Upon the sixty-three one hundred feet deep business lots fronting Ventura Boulevard, with a twenty foot alley in the rear, I hope to see built a unique shopping district that will attract the favorable attention of all Southern California -- a row of beautiful, yet practical buildings. Upon the front cover is a suggestion of what I have in mind. 

That this business district will have ample home trade to insure its prosperity, in addition to the great volume of transient trade that flows constantly along the State Highway, is assured by the subdivision of a large tract directly opposite Tarzana on the north side of the Highway, and another large tract a few hundred yards east of Tarzana, both of which are rapidly disposing of their hundreds of home-sites.

If you cannot inspect the property today, write and tell me when to expect you. Make a tentative selection of a business lot or your home-site, or both, from the map on back of accompanying letter and I will tell you just what we can do about holding it for you -- if it is not already sold. That is the only danger; so, if you'd like to live on Tarzana , write or wire me today.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Tarzana Ranch, Reseda, Calif.
Telephone Van Nuys 100