Mount Auburn Cemetery

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June 12^th [187]6

T.F. M^cGann Esq

Dear Sir

I have your sample of the handles of compositions you propose to make for me & should consider them satisfactory if fully up to sample & should prefer them fully as heavy as the pattern. The sample is a little light.

You may make one 255 handles which with the sample will make 256, the price being $140 (one hundred and forty dollars) for the lot complete, and I will send you a template which the bolts on the handles are to fit, and which you can hand to Messrs. Bowker Torrey & Co to drill the holes in the marble doors by, as soon as you are through. I shall want the template returned to me.

As soon as finished send the handles to me at the Cemetery by Emerson's Watertown Express.

Yours truly J.W. Lovering Supt.

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June 12^th [187]6

Messrs Bowker Torrey & Co

Dear Sirs

Your favor of June 10^th rec'd in which you propose to furnish the catacomb doors as specific in my letter of June 9^th and as for enclosed plan, also the best course for $626 (at price named in your letter of June 5^th.)

I accept your proposition, understanding that you fit the doors and the dowels to the holes in the slate tomb at that price.

The plan enclosed shows the joints in the slate work above & below the belt course of marble, which should break joints with the slate, and be in at least as long pieces. I shall want the belt course delivered by July 18^th and the catacombs done ready by August 15^th.

Mr. T.F. M^cGann will make the handles and I have sent him a template to fit the bolts on handle to which he will have you to drill the holes by. Would it not be well to drill the holes for the handles a little nearer the bottom than the top, as that in putting up the doors they