Mount Auburn Cemetery

33 Schol St. Boston, May 7, 1862

C.R. Lowell Esq.

Dear Sir,

In sending the accompanying notice to some two or three hundred of our proprietors whose lots are therein described, your lot was casually overlooked - as it did not get on to my notes. But not only is Lot 323 deficient of proper bounds if it has any, but lot 1443 - that of the late S. R. Putnam - is not located at all on our plans, although I have seen it on a lithograph plan directly behind lot 323. The only plan however which we rely on does not contain it. The deed describes its situation thus - "adjoining lot 323 on the southerly and westerly sides of the same."

It is therefore entirely evident that it must be laid out anew if it ever has been at all, [or where?] find a proof and this should be done previous to any other work that may be desired.

I made a verbal statement of this a few days since to your brother, James R., in consequence of receiving a written request from him that O'Brien should do some work on the lot: but he asked that I should put the statement in writing. While conversing with him, it occurred to me, and I mentioned to him, that you were the representative of the lot - recently appointed upon the application, of the several heirs. I left him without any definite understanding of whether this matter would receive his attention, and therefore communicate the facts to you, as perhaps I ought to have done in the first instance, but as a matter of courtesy called on him.

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