Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston July 14, 1862

Jos. B. Glover Esq.

Dear Sir,

Since meeting you three days since, I have handed the survey of the late Mr. Ward's lot in Mt Auburn, & the report of the Com. on Lots thereon to Mr. Andrews, and requested him to see the other members of the Committee with a view to a revision of their former decision.- The papers have been returned to us with the Committee's decision endorsed-to the effect that the Corporation will assume the perpetual care of said lot for $500- the fence to be painted as often as once in three years if required."

Truly yours,

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

33 School St Boston July 14/62

Dear Madam,

I enclose the accompanying circular, which has been sent to some too hundred of our proprietors (out of say 3200) whose lots have never been permanently marked with bounds; and responses have ben quite generally given directing granite posts to be set.

Besides your own proper lot enclosed with iron fence you have five lots exclusive of the one purchased for Mr Peabody, which, as laid out on our plan with passageway intervening would require about 20 posts.

No bounds have even been affixed until we drove temporary wooden stakes last autumn.-

I will wait upon you, if you desire further explanation, as I could show you upon a rough outline, in five minutes, the position of things.

Very Resp.y yours, Austin J. Coolidge Secretary Mt A

To Mrs Sam^l Appleton