Mount Auburn Cemetery

Feby 2^d [186]5

Capt Winsor,

Dear Sir,

Mr Collier has decided to take the deed of his other lot now, & he can transfer it to the person to whom you may sell. Will you therefore please report a number for it on Saturday.

Will you be kind enough to send and measure the diameter or chord of the front end of Hobbs' lot on Mound Ave^e. You said it was twice the radius -- that makes but 4f 6 which makes a lot of this shape.

[diagram: measurements]

Now if the side come out nearly straight and make the front less tapering, the chord of that segment must be more than 4f 6 -- and if it tapers off as above, it is not an easy thing to measure the lot. I cannot make the deed well without knowing the length of both this chord, and the distance from it round the front.

Respy yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Feby. 4 [186]5

Geo. Livermore Esq, Ex^or &c

Dear Sir,

By vote of the Trustees passed Jany. 30^th, 1865, I am directed to give notice to the Ex^ors of the late Thomas Dowse that lots 1809 & 1810, held by this Corporation in trust under a conveyance from Mr Dowse, are out of repair, and that the funds provided are insufficient for the purpose of keeping them in repair -- and to request the Ex^ors to give the subject their early attention. --

Very Resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Secretary

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May 26, [186]8

T.A. Chapman Esq. Milwaukee Wis. --

Dear Sir,

Out Treas^r, Mr Bond, has sent me your note of May 13^th requesting me to reply to it:

I regret to perceive that you have got an erronous impression in the matter. The bill as I see, is $53.25 for the first grading and sodding the lot. Your lot (no 3530 Mound Avenue) was graded up with a line of lots of which Mr Collier's is first and Mr Clark's last -- in advance of sale. The Corporation only occasionally grades lot before sale, and invariably, when this is done, adds the price of grading to the piece of land. Your land (400 feet) as you find in your deed cost you $600. This was for land in its naked condition. You may have got the idea that the $600 covered the whole from the fact that it was graded when you first saw it. The reason we make the charge for the land and grading separate is that we divide proceeds of land with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and it has no interest in the work -- so we keep separate accounts, & the bills are rendered separately to the purchaser.

Every other gentleman near you has been charged this separate bill in the same way and has paid it. The fact, that if one