Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Jany 30^th [187]8

E.R. Cheney Esq

Dear Sir

The plan of posts & entrance to lot ^#2035 (Tirrell) is received

To remove the iron fence & to dig out the sixteen posts of granite will cost ^$4.00 - I will allow you 1/2 ¢ per. [tl?] or more if I can get it for the old iron which will bring from ^$10 to ^$15, as nearly as I can estimate the weight. I will allow for the granite posts for the foundation to monument ^$8.00 if I take them

The cost of the foundation will be ^$32.20 the usual rate, with a deducation of ^$8.00 as above, if I use the posts. Size of foundation 4'-3" x 4'-3" 5 ft. below sod, and laid in cement.

I will set the curbing (lead & clamp.) at entrance as per. plan & the four corner posts, building the foundation under platform in cement, with the ^^foundation stone which you are to furnish for $25.⁰⁰

The soil on the lot is poor and the raising ought to be done with loam. I will raise the lot 3 inches with loam & resod it & manure it, for and dig out the stump in the lot for ^$75.00 leaving the lot in good order, the sod not to be put on until the monument is set.

Yrs truly J.W. Lovering