1842-05-07_BondtoCurtis1_1831_020_002_001

B R Curtis Esqr

Dear Sir,

I think no organization of the
board of Trustees of Mt Auburn has been made this year.
You will probably have a meeting during my absence
of a few weeks & I beg leave to suggest for full consider-
ation the question which has often been agitated, of
granting permits to strangers to drive into the grounds.
I have been opposed to it from the difficulty of discrim-
inating its lessening the inducements to become Proprie-
tors merely for the value of the privilege of introducing
strangers. This last reason is becoming of less & less con-
sequence to us. The other remains in all its force -- still,
cases have happened when it has been mortifying that
the accommodation could not have been granted.
Gov Ellsworth & family is one of them.
If the thing is done I suppose tickets should be granted
only to persons living more than 15 or 20 miles from the
Cemetery in the City -- for a single time & either for a
single vehicle or for a single party. Probably it
would be best that each Trustee should be supplied
with them.