Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 059)

33 Schol St. Boston, May 7, 1862

C.R. Lowell Esq.

Dear Sir,

In sending the ac-
companying notice to some two or three
hundred of our proprietors whose lots
are therein described, your lot was
casually overlooked - as it did not
get on to my notes. But not only
is Lot 323 deficient of proper bounds
if it has any, but lot 1443 - that
of the late S. R. Putnam - is not
located at all on our plans, although
I have seen it on a lithograph
plan directly behind lot 323. The only
plan however which we rely on does not
contain it. The deed describes its
situation thus - "adjoining lot 323 on
the southerly and westerly sides of the same."

It is therefore entirely evident that
it must be laid out anew if it
ever has been at all, [or where?]
find a proof and this should
be done previous to any other
work that may be desired.

I made a verbal statement
of this a few days since to your
brother, James R., in consequence of
receiving a written request from
him that O'Brien should do
some work on the lot: but he
asked that I should put the
statement in writing. While con-
versing with him, it occurred to
me, and I mentioned to him, that
you were the representative of the lot -
recently appointed upon the application,
of the several heirs. I left him without
any definite understanding of whether this
matter would receive his attention,
and therefore communicate the facts
to you, as perhaps I ought to have
done in the first instance, but as
a matter of courtesy called on
him.

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