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