Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston March 4, 1862

Edward Brinley Esq

Dear Sir,

Yours of the 1st inst. was rec^d yesterday. I have no definite recollection of your lot, although I spent some time there late in the Autumn completing our great survey. It is pleasantly (although rather publicly) located near the junction of Poplar and Willow Avenues. The present price of land is 50 cts per foot, and yours would probably be worth $250. I don't suppose you could call the improvements worth much. It might not tempt one much even at that price, but if you desire, when the snow is off, I will look at the lot and give you more particular answer. - It might be well, meantime, if you have determined to sell, to give me an idea of what you will take for it, in case I should have any inquiry for such a lot.

My last catalogue was of June 1860, which I think you have: if not, I will send.

Yours very truly

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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Jany 3 [186]5

Capt Winsor,

Dear Sir,

Mr J.C. Converse wishes me to say that he is ready to take the land as surveyed by you in addition to lot 889 on Poplar & Willow Avenues. --He thinks he left it so a year ago, when he talked with you, but as you showed him a plan, and he did not decide upon the granite contract, he says you may have rec^d the impression that he left both undecided. He would have preferred a little less of a jog on the west side - but is willing to lease that to you.

I have told him that he will have to pay $1.00 per foot for his land now, when he could have rec^d it, if he had been more punctual, at 50 cts.

He says if you will report the amount to be added, he will pay for it, at any time.

As the matter has been lying unfinished with me for two or three years, the event is to be very much desired; and I hope you will report it forthwith.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge

Please say to Mr Safford, I would like the orders of interment for Nov^r & Dec^r

May 25 [186]5

Capt. D.L. Winsor,

Dear Sir,

Mr Henry G. Howard of San Francisco has arranged to sell Lot no 332 Alder Path with half of the "Howard & Merry tomb" to his uncle Geo. H. Howard of that place: and they propose to buy more land & make some improvements.

There is quite an amount of land on the rear -- perhaps 300 feet or more, of which they wish to know just how much, and the price.

There is also a piece of land between the South lot and Gardner Greenleaf's which they might desire to include. I wish therefore you would survey this including what is in the rear extending it back as far as you would the line in rear of tomb. On the plan there appears to be here about 300 feet. strong -- i.e. 10 wide, and 30 deep -- I have made a tracing from the sectional survey which I propose to send out to California to enable them to see the surroundings as far as to Poplar & Willow Avenues. If they can be induced to enlarge and fit up this, it will make quite an improvement.

Please then give me the width on the back of the two lots which you could add leaving a sufficient passageway to the lots on Willow. (By the plan there appears to be 10 ft or more), also the width & length of the strip next to Greenleaf. I should say 10 x 30.

State the price at which you would sell. --

Please reply in person on Saturday -- that will answer Mr Howard's purpose as he wishes to send to his brother by next steamer. --

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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Dec^r 27 [186]5

Capt D.L. Winsor

Dear Sir,

I omitted yesterday to state that at Mr J.C. Merrill's request for a number with four figures to be given him, for the lot of Mr Ward his brother in law, I gave him 3376. This number was on a little lot which was sold to Hannah A. Morse, in rear of 888 Poplar Av., and transferred back to the Corpⁿ before she died. So, if you have put a stake there to indicate ^^{a lot for sale by that no.} please have it changed to the east half of J.C. Merrill's on Snowdrop Path.

That lot will be then - S.E. half Hen. V. Ward 3376 - N.W. J.C.M. 3487.

Geo. W. Livermore Esq. of Camb. called in again today, & as he is anxious to settle his bill with the Corpⁿ wishes you would correct the report of lots 3509, 3510, -- M.H. Livermore & P.F. Folsom, on Clematis Path, so that they will stand 300 feet each (if that is what they contain, as appears from the book of Shedd's plan) instead of 326 ft. as before: and instruct the Treas^r to give them a credit of $65 on the bill. I promised him you would bring it in on Saturday.

Mr W^m C. Murdock wishes you to bring in the bill on the Vose lot next Saturday, and would like to meet you here at 12 o'clock. If you can fix the report to include the cap on the monument, he will pay in the fund so as to be included in this year's rep^t. He p^d $450 on the Ward lot today.

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

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ratified. _

Removal of Location of Lot 2288

Mr Curtis for the Com^ee on Lots, authorized by the Board under date of Feby. 17. 1862, to effect the removal of lot No. 2288 on Spruce Av^e, belonging to Asa Wilbur, Trustee, submitted a report, to the effect that, with the consent of the proprietor, an exchange had been accomplished, and the lot had been removed to Garden Avenue, _ the title to the old lot had been released, and a deed had been made to said Wilbur of s^d lot in its present location. _

The report was accepted. _

Lots to be kept in Perpetual Repair _

Mr Curtis for the Committee on Lots, also reported that the Committee had, subject to the approval of their Board, contracted for the prepetual repair of the following lots: _

Lot 1611	_ Poplar Av.	Sarah K. Pierce	$200. _
" [Lot] 160	Holly Path.	Thos. C. Bacon	400. _
" [Lot] 736	Central Ave	Estate of Winthrop Ward	500.
" [Lot] 680	- Yarrow P.	Fessenden Monument Lot	150.
" [Lot] 473	Beech Av.	Estate of Catherine Putnam	500.

Voted that the report be accepted, and the contracts ratified ~

Annual Rep^t of Trustees _

The President submitted the Annual Report of the Trustees, and stated that the Treas^r-s report, by reason of his absence, is not ready, on account of which certain blanks occur in the