Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Mt. Auburn Nov. 14. 1873

John T. Bradlee Esq Chairman Comm. on Grounds.

Dear Sir

I give you below a list of the men whose services I value the most & whom I should be glad to keep thru the winter. If you will approve, I shall then be able to give a few days notice to all to be discharged. Unless the season is unusually open, I would propose to reduce the number to 25 on Dec. 1_st, if our top dressing, the covering of myrtle, and other orders are nearly enough finished to admit.

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to reasonable advantages.

When ever you consider the weather to be too bad to work, you will not take the men on, and if on, you will have the bell rung if necessary to send them home.

I shall notify M^r Collins that to prevent any confusion, his men will not work when yours do not. You will furnish M^r Baker with such men as are needed, nor allowing the foreman of a gang to have the gang while they are working unless the case is very urgent. Have the tools &c & all rubbish puraevy & cleaning up on Saturday nights.

Let S. W. Hutchings continue at gate in Sunday mornings & Patchett afternoons & Mr Barker will arrange such keep as may be needed for funerals.

Mulvey & G. E. S. Hutchings can take their turns on Sundays & be allowed for it when present.

Yours truly J. W. Lovering

Teamsters [see?] Rainey & J. D. Howe % paids will be assured