Mount Auburn Cemetery

966

Nov. 16th. 1889.

#2337-S.

Mrs. M. H. Dehon, #273 Fifth Avenue, New York.

Dear Madam: -

The brown-stone posts under the fence are in very poor condition, and unless replaced soon, the fence must be removed. They should be replaced, if at all, with a more durable stone, which would make it necessary to replace all the stonework, the expense of which would be entirely out of proprotion to the results obtained.

Contracts are not made for the perpetual care of less than a whole lot, but after the lot has been arranged as desire you can probably come to some understanding with the owner of the other part, so that the perpetual care of the whole can be provided for.

To regrade and sod the whole enclosure would cost one hundred and forty dollars ($140.00) and to regrade and sod one half of it would cost eighty dollars ($80.00). If the whole lot were regraded and sown with grass seed the expense would be seventy dollars ($70.00) or forty dollars ($40.00) for half the lot and although you would have to wait longer, our experience is that the results are fully as good. The grass will not grow well under the two trees that remain, but until the room is needed for interments, I think it would be a pity to remove them.

Respectfully yours, J. W. Lovering Sup't. pr J.C.S.