Mount Auburn Cemetery

Daniel Parkman, as the parties named in the will. --

From the foregoing, you therefore perceive that your deed gives no title to the lot. I send you a transfer, which, as I understand the facts, when executed, will straighten the matter.

I have been at so much trouble in the matter because I could not inform you without investigating the facts, and I knew you would wish the purchaser to have a valid title. I have said nothing to Gardner about it, and, I presume he knows nothing about, and he needs to know nothing. We can substitute the new deed for the one which you gave him. To save expense of stamp, I have transferred the stamp from the old to the new deed. -- Please get it executed (your wife's acknowledgement will do, and save expense of coin -- in Baltimore) and destroy the old deed, which I send you. -- As a partial compensation for my trouble in the matter, you may, if you please, send me $3.00, as I have been to the Probate office, ransacked the records, copied one will & show [minutes?] of another, drawn transfer, advised you & so.

I sent for Gardner & made him execute a new deed, and that is all we need of him, but it was as I said, before I ascertained about the title.

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge, Sec.y

After the return of the transfer we can cut off the first, & annex that to the original deed.

Aug. 16 [186]4

Josiah O. Stearns Esq Elizabeth City, N.J.

Dear Sir,

Three or four weeks since, I sent you some blank orders for interments of Obed & Mary A. Stearns & for their removal to your lot, which, although I enclosed with a note from our Sup^t to you, I requested should be returned me at this office and not to Mt Auburn, as it is my duty to make the record of interments. I also requested you to fill the blanks in the order for the interment of Mary A. Stearns -- viz. of late residence-- and date of death. She is reported to us as having died at Corning, N.Y. ^^{aged 31 years}. Please reply to me. -- What was her residence at the time of her death, and what was the date of her death? If you had noticed my re-- quest particularly, and not returned my papers to the Cemetery, you would have been saved the trouble of my writing you again. If you can ^^not give these answers, please obtain them for me, or direct me to one who can.

Yours respectfully

A.J. Coolidge

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