Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Shipped in good Order, and well conditioned, by Bowker Torrey & Co. in and upon the good Ship called the Mary & Martha whereof is Master for this present Voyage, W.H. Clay and now riding at Anchor in the Port of LEGHORN and bound for Boston --

Six Cases containing Marble works measuring in all Cubic feet (Eng.) 123.5 } } } } } } }

being marked and numbered, as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid Port of Boston (The Act of God, the Queen's Enemies, Fire, all and every other Dangers and Accidents of the Seas, Rivers and Navigation, of whatever nature or Kind soever, save risk of Boats so far as Ship are liable thereto excepted) unto Messrs Bowker Torrey & Co. or to their Assigns upon paying Freight for the said Goods to be arranged between Messrs Bowker Torrey & Co. & Messrs Grant Warren & Co. Boston with___Primage and Average accustomed. IN WITNESS whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirmed to 3 Bills of Lading, all of this tenor and Date, the one of which Bills being accomplished, the other 2 to stand void.

Dated in LEGHORN The 11th March 1856 Contents unknown [Sir,?]

W.H. Clay

Mr H Clay, Leghorn March 11th 1856

Bowker Torrey Co

The plaster model will then revert to the estate of Mr Crawford, and, I think, had better remain in Rome, so that in case of accident a new statue may be constructed after it. And here let me suggest the expediency of having the statue insured for a sum sufficient to pay for a duplicate in marble if the original should be lost. A statue of John Adams by Randolph Rogers, & one of Webster by Powers, are supposed to be lost having been shipped from Leghorn in the Oxford Sept. 1 & not since heard from. Mr Rogers prudently $2500. which will compensate him he thinks for making another statue.

You will pereceive that the expense of freight insurance &c, will be payable by Mr Crawford's estate. But upon the delivery of the statue at the wharf in Boston, the Trustees of Mount Auburn will assure the expense of removing it to the Cemetery & setting it up.

The pedestal included in the contract should be made to match that of Mr Rogers' J Adams to which it will stand opposite. Mr R has just sailed for Europe, & you will doubtless find it advantageous to consult or employ him in this part of the business. His address is "Care of Packenham Hooker & Co 20 Piazza di Spagna, Rome.

The statue should be shipped to Boston (not New York) in the spring if a vessel is ready

Accept dear madam the assurance of my respect & sympathy

Jacob Bigelow