1 Mount Auburn Cemetery Letters and Invoices

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[letterhead: Oliver Moulton, Superintendent

P.O Address, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Forest Hills Cemetery.

188]

have to have on Sunday we could regulate them and any one found committing any depreciation be arrested and fined. I think late years the rougher element frequent the seahsore resorts where there is more amusement whereas fifteen years ago no such resorts existed

Please let me hear from you on the subject

Yours truly Oliver Moulton [?]

Subject: Employment [in pencil]

[small rectangular stamp] MT. AUBURN CEMETERY FEB 20 1883 SUPT'S. OFFICE.

$1.50 per day -- probably -if on hand when ready to begin April 10 to 20 --can give work if makes himself satisfactory

Mars Hill Feb the 18^th^ 1883

To the Superintendent of Mt Auburn Cemetery. I thought that I drop you a line for a chance to work next summer I worked in Mt Auburn 8 years ago I would like to come up & work for the corporation next summer if you can give me a chance I will take a chance at most [any?] till haying if you wish me to I have got behind a little & I would like to work out a couple of years to make up for it. I would like to have you write me & tell what wages were last summer & what you think that will be likely

Subject: Curb. [stamp: C.B. PRESCOTT, 131 Devonshire St., ROOM 13, BOSTON] 4584 May 21st 1883 Mr. Lovering My dear Sir Wht the delay? The granite has not been touched for sometime Why not go on as far as practicable? I am afraid memorial day will find me in a bad plight. Your earnest attention will greatly oblige Yours sincerely C.B. Prescott

Subject: Antidote more objectionable than the pest itself.

J. W. Lovering Esq.

Supt Mount Auburn Cemetery

This sample (Yeels Compound) I send you for the destruction of greenhouse pests is the result of five years carefully conducted chemical experiments by a wealthy Lady who resides on the bank of the Hudson River near N York she has five greenhouses and grapevies for her private use she has chemical tastes, and when the mealy bug presented himself with no antidotes but something more objectionable than the pest itself she set herself the task to find some remedy and the result is attained in a compound healthful to the plant and harmless to humane life but totally destructive to the general pests which infest the greenhouse she now believes it prevents mildew also as none has appeared in her house since its use now more than a year while previously it has been present to considerable extent - I send this sample that you may test it in freedom and if I shall do as stated, it will do others good to know the fact from you by means of what you may honestly say of the compound - I shall be glad to hear from you as soon as you may have opportunity to satisfy yourself in the matter.

W. H. Hudson 5 Temple Place Boston Mass.

May 25\83

CEDAR HILL CEMETERY.

WARD W. JACOBS, TREASURER, OFFICE AT MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK.

Hartford, Conn., [blank line]

a little [descent?] to the ground after entering the Cemetery

The [Coll..?] & Office will be removed. If you know of any gateway of modern construction please state where. Not wishing to intrude too much on your valuable time, awaiting a reply

I remn Yours truly

H [Scrivener?] 1 Fairfield Av Hartford Ct.

Subject: Advice on new Gateway, sought

CEDAR HILL CEMETERY.

WARD W. JACOBS, TREASURER, OFFICE AT MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK.

Hartford, Conn., Feb 21, 1887

J.W. Lovering Esqr.

Dear Sir

We have an appropriation of $25000 [$250.00? $2500.00?] to erect a gateway at the main entrance to our Cemetery

I have taken the liberty to write to you, sending some Photographic views, of the entrance as it now is, with a ground plan showing the approach both ways, also the distance of the chapel from the road, with a plan of the change I think of making

The Chapel is built of Westerly Gray granite. Any advice you could offer, I shall [desire?] it a favor to receive, as to which would look best and be most durable, an Arch or an open gateway there being

Subject: Great prosperity and good results of Mt.A.--as others see it.

[letterhead: Office of Superintendent of Green Mount Cemetery. Baltimore Feb 3rd 1888]

To Supt Mount-Auburn Cemetery

My Dear Sir I desire to acknowledge the receipt of your annual report for 1887, which I have read with great pleasure, and desire to congratulate you upon the great propsperity of your Cemetery, we have had lately some trouble with the Lotholders of Green-Mount, giving out of some new regulations thought necessary by the management for the good of the Cemetery, and the matter is now in our Courts, will you kindly send me a copy of your Charter, together with full copies of Rules under which you have had such results

And Oblige Thos. S. Wilkinson Supt Green.Mount Cemetery, Baltimore M.D.

Subject: Advise on Prices

[Letterhead

MARCUS A. FARWELL, President IN CHARGE OF CITY OFFICE

W.C.D. GRANNIS, Treasurer GEORGE M. BOGUE, Secretary

S.E. Cor. Cottae Grove Ave. and 67th street.

Oak Woods Cemetary Association.

Wm. DENNISON, Supt. PO Woodlawn Park, Ill.

CITY OFFICE: ROOMS 102-103, ADAMS EXPRESS BUILDING, 187 Dearborn Street]

Woodlawn Park, Ill., Feby 20^th, 1888

To the Supt. of Mt. Auburn Cem'ty Boston Mass

Dear Sir

Will you please give me information I desire namely [Left Letterhead] Area of Grounds [Right Letterhead] 135 [Left Letterhead] When established [Right Letterhead] 1831 [Left Letterhead] Are they in City Limits [Right letterhead] No_ in Center Watertown [left letterhead] How far from Centre [Right letterhead] about 5 miles [Left letterhead] How many Burials per year [Right letterhead] 550 [Left letterhead] How many Interments [Right letterhead] 26.525 [Left letterhead] Price of lots [Right of letterhead] $.75[?] to $3 per foot [?can't read] [Left of letterhead] " of Single Grave [Right of letterhead] $15 [Left letterhead] " of opening Graves in Lots [Right letterhead] $5 [Left letterhead] " of Vault. charges [Right letterhead] 20 for 3 mos[?] [mal burial to 181 lg?]

I presume you have a report that will cover all the questions. [Of er?] will you please me me a copy.

Yours truly

Chas. C. Drew Asst. Supt.

Woodlawn Park. Ill.

Subject. Watering Coolidge Ave.

[letterhead: OFFICE OF CITY AUDITOR, CITY HALL. Cambridge, May 30^th 1888]

J.W. Lovering Esq Supt. Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Dear Sir,

Mayor Russell requests me to write you that the Cambridge Cemetery will pay the same as last year for the watering of Coolidge Ave. and the water will be put on as soon as you send check for your proportion which is $74.00

Respy Yours H. T. Upham Auditor

Subject: old flags removed -- Legislative action? Reply on back?

HEADQUARTERS JOHN A. ANDREW POST 15, DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS, G.A.R.

1151 WASHINGTON STREET.

Boston, May 10, 1888.

[upper left margin stationery heading sketch of man] GEORGE B. WHITE, Commander, Herald Office. A.M. ROBINSON, Adjutant, 154 Washington St. A. FITZEMEYER, Quartermaster, 14 Bromfield St.

James W. Lovering, Esq., Supt. Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

Sir;

At the time of the uncovering of the flower-beds and the myrtles, in April, and after the greater part ^of the brush covering^ had been removed and placed in piles, the writer in his official capacity as chairman of the John A. Andrew Post No. 15, G.A.R., Cemetery Committee visited your Cemetery, and finding the Post's flags nearly all standing, and with a few exceptions in nearly perfect condition after standing the severe storms of nine months, and finding on one route, No. 7, forty out of forty-two flags accounted for, reported to his Post 15, such findings, and called to the particular attention of the Post this fact: that, "standing at the main entrance to the Cemetery and looking at the Bowditch monument, at its