Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston, March 22 1864

Rev. Simon [Barrows?] Des Moines, Iowa

My dear Sir,

Your old friend, apparently unknown to you as "the Secretary Mount Auburn", which office he has held for the last nine years, has, by the [?]mail which brings this to you enclosed our last catalogue of the Cemetery, printed in 1860, and, [?]you [?]as far as possible, has [insisted?] are old [?] of 1854, [?] being entirely exhausted. We have a new [?] preparing on a much larger scale, and I regret that I [?] [?] you one with many [?] and additions. Still, the general features of our [?] shown on that one [?]

The [?] five [?] with [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] you will [?] preserve any [?] [?] [chases?] today, [selects?] a [?] [?] (to illustrate) [?] number 1151 the next [?] selects, we will [?] and [?] number 1152 & so on. The [?] in the order in which he [?] of [that?] [?] it may happen to be [?] [?] annual correspondance [?] your brother [?] Souix City [?] [?], father's [lived?] in [?] County 137

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807 Ellen Stanwood of Boston, daughter of Eliphalet P. Hartshorn deceased proprietor of lot numbered 870;

997 Lewis Perrin of Brookline, son of George W. Perrin dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 997;

1127 George C. Little of Cambridge, son of Chas. C. Little, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1127;

1151 Charles H. Dorr of Boston, brother of Jas. A. Dorr, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1151;

1213 Eliza W. Noyes of Cambridge, widow of Geo. R. Noyes dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1213;

1269 Edwin A. Boardman, of Boston, son of Edwin A. Boardman, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1269;

1286 Quincy A. Shaw of Jamaica Plain, son of Robert G. Shaw dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1286;

1464 Charles S. Perham of Boston, son of Josiah Perham dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1464;

1658 George Draper of Boston, son of Daniel Draper dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1658;

1696 John C Flanders of Boston, son of John L. Flanders, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1696;