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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn, September 20^th 1866

Austin J. Coolidge Esq^r

Dear Sir,

Your letter of
yesterday is at hand. The Stone of Edward
T. Damon was not injured by any of the
workman of M^tAuburn! You will recollect
about One Year since, we had a most terrific
gale. from the North West! which blew up
by the Roots a White pine tree on "Cedar
Hill." The small end or top struck just south
of Phineas Upham' Monument, - and between
the Monument, and his corner post; covering
the whole lot with its branches, but fortunately
did no damage! M^rBarker thinks it was the
next day (as this happened in the night) that
he saw this Stone had blown down. Fred -
saw it also. and I saw it also! and never
had any doubts - in regard to the cause of
it, as it broke off in the socket, and fell on
to the hill, in about the same direction

[ on verso after fold]
Capt. D. L. Winsor
Sept 20. 1866
abt the breaking of the
Damon Monument