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if the proprietors prefer to have two bonds, the Committee will issue them. The Trustees, however, will not contract for the preservation of one lot alone.”

The above reply, of course, is not intended to deprive any proprietor from exercising a right conferred by the by-laws of depositing any sum not less than $100 with [the] Corporation, the income of which will be devoted to the care of his or her lot, upon the usual terms of trust; It relates only to the guaranty of perpetual care.-

I am very respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge, Secy of the Prop^rs Cem.y of Mt. Auburn

Boston, ------- De^r 17 1863

Dear Sir, Will you be so kind as to confer with Mrs. Hemenway as to the reconveyance of her ^^burial lots with a view to receive a deed of the Corporation of the whole in one lot.

The transfer of lot 2297 from L.F. Merrill ran to the Corporation, & has not since been conveyed to Mrs. H.- Lot 1463 stands in the name of Augustus Hemenway. The two old lots contained 600 square feet.- Her lot as curbed contains 790 square feet. She must pay the Corporation for 190 feet of land, and as the land is all enclosed in one curb, it is impraticable to have more than one number, which should be her old one – 1463. As lots are indivisible, on order to preserve unity of title, I see no way but for the Trustees of Mr H to reconvey 1463 to the Corporation, & a new deed be made to Mrs. H. of 790 feet.

Very rspfly yours A.J.Coolidge

I have fact rec^d & recorded the deed of ornamental grounds & fountain to Mrs. H. - which she will probably receive tomorrow or next day.

Boston, Dec^r 17, 1863

Capt. D. L. Winsor Sup^t Mt. A. C.

Dear Sir,

Mr Curtis - Mr Shedd's surveyor -- gives me as the contents of Mrs Mary Hemenway's lot - inside measure of the curb, & taking into account the curvature - 790 Square feet. He says the posts are some 18 or 20 inches, which is rather a large allowance - but it is perhaps you did not intend to include any portion of them in the survey.-

Mrs. H. bought lot of Lewis F. Merrill, which with her own made 600 feet.-

Will you therefore please report 190 feet in addition to her lot 1463.

We shall probably receive the transfers, & convey where all in one deed.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Boston, Dec^r 18, 1863

Dear Sir,

Not knowing from whom the deed to Mrs Hemenway came to Mr Bond, but knowing that all the negotiations with her were through you, I take the liberty to return the deed to her through you, it and a copy of the place having been duly recorded by me.

Very respy. yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Dr J. Bigelow

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Capt. Winsor

Dear Sir,

The contents of Mr Appleton's lots, as ascertained by the surveyors, are 6.946 square feet. Mr Appleton has heretofore paid, (including the addition of 3767 feet reported by you in Octo. 1862) for 6619 ft. As he takes all the passageways into his area at 50 cts, it make therefore 327 feet which he has not yet paid for, and which I told him today I would get you to [report?] in form. I have sent a note to Mr Bond to the same effect, in case he should call to [?] for it before - you report.- I presume this also will be included in last year's report.-

Please also ^^make this amendment to refs of Dec^r 1862, to Geo. W. Colburn's lot 3260, containing 792 ft.- instead of [24?] x 33 as before. This suits Mr Colburn & the requirements of the positions.

[diagram: lot measurements on Eagle Avenue and Raven Path

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

Jany. 20, 1864

L. F. Merrill Esq

Dear Sir,

The collector of our Treas^r brought the second bill of $89.94 to me yesterday, to inquire about the terms stated by you & in the agreement for the purchase of your old lot no. 2297 for Mrs Hemenway - and that was that all expenses were to be included in such purchase. I asked Dr Bigelow the President yesterday, if there was any such understanding with you in any conversation that he had, and he replied, "none at all.'- that he began by offering you 50 cts. a foot for your land, and finally acceded to the price you named of $250⁰⁰, which is 83 cts per foot. And his statement of what your proposed to do is corroborated by my own recollection of our conversation when I paid you the $250 & took the

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transfer from you. And that is this - that you hardly knew what you should do — that you expected to remove the bodies to New Hampshire; but your wife, it seems from a subsequent conversation, was dis - satisfied with your selling the lot, and when I came to urge you to have the bodies removed, before winter, you were sorry you sold it, but promised to attend to the matter very soon. You will, perhaps, remember that you came to my office, & proposed to go to Mt Auburn about it on a certain day: but a deep snow came, and nothing more was done. In order to get you to make the removal of the bodies, I told you, as instructed by Dr Bigelow, that if you would be expeditious about the removal, I did not doubt Mrs. Hemenway would bear the expense of it. Nothing had even then, so long after the purchase, been said about your buying another lot and the lot fitted [?] for you: and it was with [missing line?][astonishment that?] I saw your name reported among the orders for deeds of new lots, last summer.

I do not see how you can have got the idea that the expense of fitting up a new lot for you in our Cemetery was to be borne by Mrs H. or the Corporation. It was an outright purchase of your lot for $250, you to have liberty to remove to remove the fence and your dead: & finally to hurry you this offer was made to bear the expense of removing the bodies. - So much for the bargain.

However, Dr Bigelow recommends you to pay the bill, & go to Mrs Mary Hemenway, 40 Mt Vernon St & state the facts to her, of your removing for her accommodation,— and he has no doubt she will be disposed to do what is fair in the matter.

Very respy. yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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Messrs Shedd & Edson

Gentlemen,

Please send me tomorrow the inside measures to lots 3498 (Cutter) 3517 (Fray) 3518 & 3519 (Thompsons) on Laurel Av^e. I send the plans, on which I wish ^^you to mark the length of inside lines, & the middle ordinates, from which I can make deeds.

Send me also the same for lot 1463, on Thistle Path (Mrs Hemenway's) which contains 790 sq. ft.-

It is laid down on plan, but the exterior measures are given, so as to be no guide for me in describing.-

I shall have to ask you to send to Mt Auburn & survey some of the irregular lots:- [?]} [?]} each other}

Among these I wish

3495	rear of 179 Walnut Av.	contents	168f.
3516	rear of 179 Walnut Av.	contents	65f
3508	rear of 2204 Walnut Av.	contents	87f.
3505	Adams - Elm Av.	contents	203f
3511	Sturges - Anemone P.	contents	370f
3512	Hill - Walnut Av	contents	200f
3513	Timson - Walnut Av	contents	200f
3514	Elliott -Walnut Av	contents	300f
3515	Ames - Walnut Av	contents	300f
3484	Prescott Larch Av	contents	1846f
3499	Fines - Dianthus P.	contents	133f

Remember, I wish the inside measures.

There will doubtless be other irregular ones which I shall wish to [?]. Inform me where you will send out & I will [?] the rest ready.

Yours respy

A.J. Coolidge