Mount Auburn Cemetery

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April 22, 1873

Miss E. Warner

Dear Madam,

Your note of 16^th inst is rec^d & contents noted.

We shall be happy to set stone steps free of charge on Dianthus Path, where you wish, if you purchase the requisite number viz 3, from some stone dealer & have them delivered to the ground, as is customary on such cases.

For a similar case I would refer you to M^rs Loring Proprietor of L 896, Olive Path who had some steps put in at the south end of Dianthus Path, leading from Myrtle Path, with a year or two of her own expense except setting which was done free of charge

Yours respectfully Jas W. Lovering Supt per AC

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33 School St. , Boston Jany. [10?] 1861

Mrs V. A. Shedd Watertown Mass

Dear Madam, I lately made a deed to you as proprietor of lot No. 3058 in Mt Auburn under the name of Mrs Vernon A Shedd.

In making up the register of interments, I have past discovered that the order for the interment of your husband gives him the name of Varnum A Shedd.

Of course one or the other must be wrong. Will you please state, by return of mail, which name is correct, and oblige

Yours truly A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt Auburn

33 School St. Boston Jany. 23/61 Alex^r Wadsworth, Esq

Dear Sir, I have seen Mr Mann, and sought an explanation of the changes made upon the plan, or rather, required to be made by his mistake in not using the old numbers. He says it was his mistake, which he sought to rectify at the Treasurer's office before the deeds were ordered, but found it was too late.

The number 3013 has been given to what was 537 on Olive Path, and 3054 to what was 2139 (not 2137 as you state) on Hibiscus Path.

As nobody has been harmed, I see no need of going to the Trustees -but simply to erase a location opposite to the old numbers in the catalogue, and put the new number in the plan in place of the old. Nothing else now, of course, can be done.

If you are unwilling to make the change without a vote, please notify me before next Monday, and I will have you authorized.

Truly yours A.J. Coolidge Secretary

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Boston Jany. 28, 1861 Alex^r Wadsworth Esq

Dear Sir, The following action was had at the meeting of the Trustees of Mt. Auburn, today, upon your request.-

"Upon information by the surveyor, Mr. Wadsworth, that lot numbered 537 on Olive Path had been sold as lot 3013, and 2139 on Hibiscus Path had been sold as lot 3054, and that lot 2933 had been removed from [Harebell?] Path to Spruce Avenue, and as deeds had been made accordingly.

Voted that Mr Wadsworth be authorized to make the above named corrections upon the plans."

Truly yours A.J. Coolidge Secretary.

Boston, Jany. 28. 1861 Messrs Little & Nazro, Com^ee on Finance

Gentlemen, at the adjourned meeting of the Trustees of this cemetery of Mount Auburn held this day, the Treasurer stated that the care of the repair fund had become somewhat onerous without any compensation being allowed him therefor: and he requested the Trustees to consider whether anything should be allowed him for that duty.

Voted - thereforThat this question be referred to the Committee on Finance, to report thereon at the next meeting.

Very respectfully yours A.J. Coolidge Secretary

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Dec^r 20. [186]4

Capt. D L Winsor,

Dear Sir,

I wish you would endeavor to report upon lot 525 Olive Path, to Oliver A. Farwell, if you can. I am inclined to, think, from Mr Shedd's statement, that his surveyor's measurement is correct - for he states that although he gives one of the distances on the sketch handed you, as 13ft., that was a mere error of figures there, and that he calculated the area by calling that distance 15 feet. It seems a pity, when the money has been ready for the lot so long, that the proprietor should not receive his deeds. I have the impression the figures he gave me were 356 ft. but your memo will show. My former note contained it as he gave it to me.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

June [8?] [186]6

Thomas Haven Esq

Dear Sir,

I have long searched for a Thomas Haven, the proprietor of lot no. 503 in the Cemetery, situated upon Willow Avenue, who appears to have been in the Boston Directory fom 1835 to 1839, as a merchant at 30 [Centred?] Wharf and to have disappeared from the Directory after the latter year: and finally from inquiries and correspondence have been led to the belief that you are that man. --

I am preparing a new catalogue of the proprietors, and wish so far as possible to make it accurate and complete.

Will you please inform me whether I am correct?

Respy. yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

June 8 [186]6

Capt Winsor

Dear Sir,

Please send two men to set four 8 in. post to the Lowell & Putnam lots on Fountain Av. the first job you do -- I beg of you, and stop my prayers on the subject; which have been earnest, and from the heart, for the last three years: So that the surveyor can get them for the plan. He has the minutes of survey.

Please report for perpet. care on Lot 2015 Sewall Phelps' Estate, on Honeysuckle Path.

Also of

1530 Olive P. 100 ft. Mary Wallack's Estate Don't get this over $200 if you can help it. She gave $200 in her will out of which will have to come $6 legacy tax to U.S. --

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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