Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 007)

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33 School St Boston. Jany. 8/61
Mr. Nath^l D. Sawin.

Dear Sir, Please send or
leave word at my office, "by return
of Mail," the name of the parents
of a stillborn child interred in
your lot no. 2911, in Mt Auburn,
April 13, 1860.

We are making up the register
of internments for the year, with
the index, and the order for in-
terment, signed by yourself,
does not give this information,
which is necessary to complete the
record. My attention was called
to it when making up the register
for that month, but it had since
escaped my recollection. There need
be no feeling of delicacy in giving us
information for the official record of
facts.

Your reply as soon as convenient
after getting this will oblige.

Yours truly A.J. Coolidge
Secretary of Mt Auburn

33 School St Boston
Jany. 8. 1861

Mr E. N. Coburn

Dear Sir, Will you
please ascertain for me, if you
do not know of your own know-
ledge, the name of the father or
mother of a stillborn child which
you buried at Mt Auburn
on the 7^th day of April 1860,
in the lot of Betsey Davis, No 183
on Larch Avenue. This name is
not given in the order for inter-
ment, which is signed by C. Hough-
ton. I should think, although it is hard
to make it out. The order for
interment should always give
the ^^{name of the} parent of such child, if the child
received no name, which is more gen-
erally the case.

Please reply by return of mail,
as I am making up the index and am
in haste to complete it.

A. J. Coolidge
secretary of Mt Auburn