Mount Auburn Cemetery

May 12, [186]5

Philip Marett Esq New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir,

Yours of 8^th last is at hand. I had not completed the requisite preliminaries at the date of its reception.

I am now directed by the Com^ee on Lots, who have considered your application, to inform you that the Corporation will assume the perpetual care and preservation of lot 794 alone for $350. but as this lot is enclosed with lot 462, so that both can be better managed together, they will assume the care of both for $600. --

This estimate will not, of course, form any basis for future negotiations, or bind the Corporation, if the am^t named is left by all, as a Board of Trustees chosen annually cannot bind their successors. It is only a present estimate. --

Very Resp.y yours,

A.J. Coolidge, Sec.y

May 19, 1865

Miss Eliza S. Quincy

Dear Madam

Our surveyors Messrs Shedd & Edson have sent me a sketch of your family lot from which the following is copied:

[diagram: measurements]

This would make a very beautiful lot, if the heirs would incline to remove the iron fence & enclose the whole with a granite border. Iron fences must in the nature of things be temporary. An iron fence will look stiff and angular here, while a graceful could

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