Mount Auburn Cemetery

175

April 7^th [188]2

D.W. Hitchcock Esq

Dear Sir

The land about which you inquire yesterday, has not been offered for sale in lots as it is desirable to keep some open land near the front entrance and as a drain passes across it some 9 or 10 feet below the surface, as shown by the enclosed plan on which a new lot has been laid out, next to that last sold (no #3891). This new lot (not numbered on plan) contains 300 sq. ft.

If this lot were sold at all, it would be with the understanding that no stonework other than monuments, headstones or the corner posts set by the Corporation to mark the lot, be placed there.

The drain is very substantialy built & covered with heavy stone & would be several feet below any burial & would I believe do no damage to the lot, but I should want you if you bought the lot to understand that there was a drain there.

The price of the lot, marked with the corner posts as set by the Corporation and with the turfing under perpetual care would be $1500.

There are numerous lots in other parts of the cemetery which as lots, are quite as desirable, which I could sell you for considerably less.

Ys very truly J.W. Lovering Supt