Mount Auburn Cemetery

I am happy to hear from you, & see that you are one of the [educated?] of "the great Wesh": and approve your further enterprize of giving your neighbors a decent and Christian burial.

I shall be happy to hear from you at anytime, and to do any thing that may be in my power to and in your place for a Cemetery.

I am very truly yours

A. J. Coolidge

P. S. Mrs Henshaw & all her daughters still line, although the old lady is quite blind.

March 22 [1864]

Henry Gassett Esq^r

Dear Sir,

I am directed [by] the Committee on Lots to notify you that they have agreed to recommend to the Trustees to assume the perpetual care of your lot for eight hundred dollars.

This sum may seem large, but it is not really so when the size of your lot and the increasing expenditures for such care are considered.

I am

Very Respy. Your Ob^t Serv^t

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

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