Mount Auburn Cemetery

[Letterhead: J. R. BODWELL, President, WILLIAM WILSON, Treasurer, C.H. CLARY, Secretary. Hallowell Granite Company, PROPRIETORS OF HALLOWELL WHITE GRANITE QUARRIES. AGENTS FOR Fox Island, and Spruce Head Granite, and Jonesboro' Red Granite. Hallowell, Me Dec 20^th 1871.

C. W. Folsom Esq. Supt Mt Auburn Dear Sir;

Your favor of 13^th inst was duly received. but we have delayed an answer, hoping to be able to report that the Stone was at the R.R.

We have been waiting for snow, and night before last got it just as we wanted. After waiting one day for a road to make we hitched on to the Stone this morning and hauled it about 3/4 of a mile and coming down a hill it got the Start of us & ran into the gutter - and it took all the rest of the day to get it back into the road /. but it is now all ready to hitch to & Start again in the morn which we shall do without fail. We cannot tell you at just what time

it will be at Mt Auburn. for we have got to finish our part of the rough work after we get it to the Depot here where we shall be near the model. and by that time we expect that the R.R. Co. here will have a car ready to take it along to Boston as they are building one for that purpose. So you can judge as nearly as we can when it will be at your place. We think that the worst of our part of the job will be over when we get it hauled from the Quarry and think that the rest will not take us a great while Very truly yours Hallowell Granite Co. per Clary

"Granite Co.," of which the principle men are Mr. Bodwell & himself,) says he shall put as many men on it as can work, (say 3 or 4,) "next week", to "plug off" or break off the spare pieces and corners of the stone.

(Nothing of this has been attempted yet.)

He also says "if nothing "hinders", he hopes to have the stone in Boston during September.

But they have never moved so heavy a stone, and have had to order many things, including chains, wheels, Drills, &c, expressly for this stone; which has caused, (& probably may yet cause,)