Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 161)

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33 School St. Boston, Aug. [8?] 1864.

Mrs Elizabeth T. Green
Worcester Mass.,

Dear Madam,

The widow of the late Ezekiel
Hallet Jr, husband of your daughter the ^^late proprietor of lot 2603 in
Mount Auburn, has just called at my office, supposing that
she had an interest in said lot by reason of her husband and
child's decease, and wished to make her interest appear by deed. I
at once remembered the transfer to you, and went to my record,
and showed her the evidence of the transfer to you. She was greatly
surprised -- had never heard anything about the transfer --
supposed that the lot, upon the decease of Mrs Elizabeth D. Hallet,
went to her husband, and she is therefore apparently in some
trouble of mind for what has occurred, which adds to her
affliction. She recently came from her father's in Vermont, with
her child and went to the Cape to visit your and his relations.
While there her child died. As she was confined just before
Mr Hallet's death, he asked her, in case the child should
not live, that it might be laid in the same grave with
himself. She therefore went to Mt Auburn last Saturday,
with the body of the child. She says she knew nothing of the
transfer to you, and asked to have the grave opened. Our
employees at the gate knew nothing of the transfer to you,
as we have not published a new catalogue for four
years, and naturally presuming from the facts stated to
them, of the burial of her husband in the lot, they obeyed
her order to open a grave -- and by her wish in the