Mount Auburn Cemetery

33 School St. Boston Jany. 20, 1862

Dr. Richardson

Sir, In the order for the interment of your late wife, Mrs. Mary Richardson, in the lot of [Symuel?]Gardner, in Mt. Auburn, Oct. 12, 1861, the blank for her age was not filled. Thinking there had been neglect on the part of the undertaker, or town clerk, I wrote to each of them, and learned that one of them you "could not tell", and the other you refused to tell, if the reply "no matter" "no consequence" is to be thus construed.-

As it is not only our wish but our duty to make our Register of Interments complete in every particular, where it is possible to do so, I must

request that you will furnish us with the desired information. I should be very unwilling to suppose you had any motive for withholding this information, as I am not aware of any such case of refusal ever before occurring. and we should prefer to believe that this is a mistake about this.-

We wish to close our record for the year, at once, and trust you will furnish this fact for our Register; or we shall be obliged to note in the place where it should be stated such information as has already been furnished as a reason for the omission.

Yours respectfully

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