Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Nov 19 [187]3

Josiah B. Hagar Esq 37 Long Wharf Boston

Dear Sir:

Lot No. 3028 Rosebay Ave contains 600 sq. ft. The regular price for that sized Lot is for care $8.⁰⁰, for top dressing $7.00. We do not consider it using other proprietors in good faith, to make special contract with any one at reduced rates. We must therefore respectfully decline to care for your lot for $3.00 per an., but trust that you will return enclosed order duly signed

Very Respectfully James W Lovering Supt per Childs

Nov. 19 [187]3

H.B. Mackintosh Esq Treas^r

Dear Sir

I have order for 1872 from Mr Nickerson for care & Mr Collins says he took care of lot; also an order for 1873.

Yrs truly J.W. Lovering

33 School St Boston, Oct. 17, 1861.

Geo Penniman Esq Treas^r Granite Railway Co.

Dear Sir,

I have been instructed to forward you a copy of a vote of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, passed at a meeting of the Board Oct. 7, 1861. - which is as follows: -

"Voted that the Committee on Grounds be instructed by the Board to give notice to the contractors for the granite front of the new catacomb tombs in course of construction between Rosebay and Culvert Avenues, that this Corporation will not accept said granite front on account of imperfections in the stones, and for defective construction."

I am Resp.y yours, Austin J. Coolidge Secretary of Mount Aub. Cem.ly

33 School St. Boston, Sept^r 18, 1861

W^m. B. Bacon Esq

Dear Sir,

It appears from a recent interment in Mr D.G. Bacon's lot in Mt Auburn, that your numbers upon the lot have not been made to correspond with those of your deeds, and as in the Catalogue of Proprietors. I have ascertained that the numbers have been cut upon the Stone; hence it is impracticable to attempt correction there.

The only course, therefore, left for you is to transfer your deed to your brother, & he the same to you. Unless you do this, some future interment will be the occasion of a mortifying blunder by opening a grave in the wrong lot.

I will attend to the matter for you at any time; but shall have to charge you for the record.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge Secretary.

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it will cost you nothing for ^^an additional plan. If you prefer a duplicate of the finished plan shown you last week, Mr Shedd informs me that the cost will not exceed $6. They will furnish you a tracing on prepared cloth not to exceed $3. --

I presume he could furnish you a copy for each of the lot owners at $2.50 each.

I am very respy Your Ob^t Ser^t

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

P.S. I think it may be well to put the figures representing size of the monuments and their distances from side lines of the lots, which you notice on the sketch, on to the plan to be filed. --

July 7 [186]4

Edward Austin & Otis Norcross Esq^s Com. on Lots

Gentlemen,

Article 13 of the By-laws of this Corporation invests the Committee on Lots, among other duties, with "the general supervision" x x "of all questions of right -- between individual proprietors, or between proprietors and the Corporation." --

Messrs Stickney and Poor, who are the proprietors of lots 3118 & 3119 situated upon Rosebay Avenue, con-- taining 2000 square feet, a year or two since contracted with a granite man for a curb around their lots and last year employed the Superintendent to set the work up. -- After the work had been commenced, a difference of opinion arose between the Superintendent and

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Nov^r 29 [186]4

Capt. D.L. Winsor,

Dear Sir,

Mr W^m M. Lathrop called in this P.M. and says he thinks he gave you an order for both posting & grading lots 3363 & 3364, Acanthus P. rear of 1833 & 1856. He talked over the size of the posts, & thinks he signed his name to the order book. -- If he is in error, please inform me, and I will have him give the proper order. -- He would like to have the grading done this season, if not too late: at all events, set the posts.

As it will probably be a day or two before the surveyors get out to you, I think it will be well for you to set as many of the posts to the lots of delinquent proprietors as possible: -- and their survey would then be the more complete. I subjoin a list of ^^all the earlier lots contained on the list shown you, remaining without bounds. --

?	3027	Magnolia	630 f.	Hunt.
	3081	"
	3213	Willow	300	G. Tufts
	3215	Lawn	400	Potter
	3224	Rosebay	440	Livermore
{	3232	Lime	} 250	Walker
{	3233	"	} 250	Walker
(	3320	Rosebay	300	Holmes
(	3321	"	300	Holmes
{	3363	Acanthus - rear of	300	A. Rogers
{	3364	1833 or 1858?	300	W.M. Lathrop
	3366	Fountain	400	Merriam
	3394	Spruce	400	Blaisdell
2 front posts	3411	Sumac	300	Clark
	3413	Fountain	400	Hovey
	3417	Garden	300	Dickinson
	3453	Fountain	400	Rymes
	3476	Sycamore	300	Whitman
	3493	Rosebay	480	B.C. Clark
{	3496	Oxalis	200	Baldwin
{	3497	"	200	Phinney
	3511	Anemone	370	Sturgis
{	3514	Arethusa	300	Elliott
{	3515	"	300	Ames
	3520	Trefoil	300	Wilder
	3523	Mound	300	Chase
	3524	"	213	Hobbs
	3528	Acanthus	300	Abbott
	3530	Mound	400	Chapman
	3534	"	300	Clark
{	3536	Camellia	225	Hale
{	3537	"	225	Boynton
	3543	Saffron	300	Chase

Thirty two in number -- and less than I had supposed on so long a list.

Will you also, in compliance with the request of the Com^ee on Lots furnish me before next Monday, a list of all lots of which the bounds have been neg-- lected. The above will aid you somewhat, but I am not sure that it embraces all since 3000.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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April 26^th [186]7

J. H. Shedd Esq

Dear Sir,

For the sake of setting a few things right for my catalogue as well getting the ^some deeds out of the way & settling accts. I will you would give me this week or quite early next the following.

The actual measurement & contents of lots 3012 & 3737 on Oxalis P. (Bourne). I think you will have to make a new sketch, or alter the old one so as to show the measures of the orig. tomb lot 3012^^[its?] addition on Myrtle & lot 3737, after correcting distances from path to back side.

Survey -	Lot 3625	Pine Av. -	(Smith)	curbed
	" 3638	Galanthus	Goldsbury
	" 3715	Moss P.	Clarissa Oswald
	" 3718	Ivy P. rear 2625 & 3667	Eliz Rutledge
	" 459	Holly P. addn of 309ft on both sides	Suter tomb
	" 3734	Rosebay Av - 706f.	Nathan Tufts [?]
	" 3703	Sycamore Av 328f	Mr C. Coppershagen
	" 3730 -	St Paul Pub. Lot, if Capt. will set ports-
	" 3280 -	St. Matt. Pub. Lot, Give me contents as cut down
	" 1736	St. John Pub. Lot, Give me contents

Survey the following unsold lots - I give prob. measures - all posted

Sec	16	{284 - Crocus -	200f
"	'20'	{
"	11 -	342 - Celastrus	300
"	11 -	375 - "	300
"	11 -	374 - "	300
"	19 -	531 - Maple -	430
Sec.	22 -	536 - Bellflower -	134f
"	19 -	576 - Maple -	435 "
"	12 -	2420 rear 1987 Spruce -	abt 222f

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge