Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 255)

May 12, [186]5

Philip Marett Esq
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir,

Yours of 8^th last
is at hand. I had not completed the
requisite preliminaries at the date of
its reception.

I am now directed by the Com^ee
on Lots, who have considered your appli-
cation, to inform you that the Corpor-
ation will assume the perpetual
care and preservation of lot 794 alone for $350.
but as this lot is enclosed with lot 462,
so that both can be better managed together,
they will assume the care of both for $600. --

This estimate will not, of course, form
any basis for future negotiations, or bind
the Corporation, if the am^t named is left by all,
as a Board of Trustees chosen annually cannot
bind their successors. It is only a present estimate. --

Very Resp.y yours,

A.J. Coolidge, Sec.y

May 19, 1865

Miss Eliza S. Quincy

Dear Madam

Our surveyors Messrs
Shedd & Edson have sent me a
sketch of your family lot from which the
following is copied:

[diagram: measurements]

This would make a very beauti-
ful lot, if the heirs would incline to remove
the iron fence & enclose the whole with
a granite border. Iron fences must in the nature
of things be temporary. An iron fence will look stiff
and angular here, while a graceful could

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