Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 22^d [18]69

Edward Baldwin Esq.

Dear Sir: --

Yours of 9^th with $4. for bill of 1868 on the I.P. Davis lot was duly received, as also yours of 21^st inquiring after same. --

I have had yours of 9^th with bill receipted and an envelope addressed to you lying before me ever since, waiting for me to see F.O. Prince Esq about the succession to the lot, so that I might reply to you understandingly. I called several times & could not find him in, and on Saturday did see him, & should have written you yesterday if I had had time.

As I am accustomed to gather from the Probate offices the facts connected with the estate of deceased persons as bearing upon the inheritance of their burial lots, I had noted an intricate class of facts connected with the Davis Estate. By our Charter, a burial lot is real estate, subject to the rules of descent & devise applicable to other real estate. -- And when a proprietor dies our board of Trustees are required to designate which one of his heirs or devisees shall represent a lot. After the death of Mr Davis, Mrs Davis was so designated. Upon her death a vacancy has occurred in the representation.

I find from Mr Davis' will that one half of his estate was disposed of to certain of his heirs under trust -- the other half to Mrs D. for life, with power in her to appoint in what manner it should go after her death. Mrs Davis, after certain legacies, gives her half of the residence to Mrs Wood &

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