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

33 School Street, Boston, Dec^r 30, [186]3

Mr W^m H. Blood 77 Franklin St

Dear Sir,

I enclose you a note written to Mrs John Blood by myself & rec^d again by me from the dead letter office under date of Dec^r 18^th & since writing it & before its return from Washington, I have written her another addressed in the same way to her at Charlestown, to which I have rec^d no reply .- Ascertaining who was cutting a curb for the lot, I inquired of Mr Hutchinson and obtained your address.

Will you please get the deed from our Trea. Mr Bond (167 Congress St.) and confer with your mother - then with me? If the curb is being cut as Mr Hutchinson told me 16f x 17f x 18f x 18f the deed (which I returned to the Treas^r despairing of hearing from Mrs Blood, & which gives the dimensions of lot as 15 x 20 f) should be corrected.

Please see that the other letter is not sent for to the dead letter office.

Yours resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt.

Boston, ----Dec^r 31, [186]3

Capt D.L. Winsor Sup^t

Dear Sir,

Please report upon the condition of the Cedar Hill Enclosure, belonging to W^m Appleton. I send a blank supposing you might not have the contents at hand.

Please not allude to Mrs Sam. Appleton's or Mrs Peabody's lot-, as they form no necessary part of the enclosure, and Mr A. will not think of providing for them.

The lots 3363, 3364, 3388, 3389 in the rear of Acanthus Path, which I understood you were posted, Curtis has not on the plan. He says he noticed them as being only staked.

Have you ever found my note of Christmas Day?

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

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