Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 269)

July 17 , [186]5

Otis Daniel Esq.
15 Congress St - Boston,

Dear Sir,

The Committee
on Lots have considered your
application and the report of the
Sep^t of the Cemetery upon your
lot, and have directed me
to inform you that the
Corporation will guarantee
the perpetual repair of your
lot for four hundred & fifty
dollars.

If this offer meets your ap-
proval, I will prepare the
necessary papers.

Very Resp yours,

A.J. Coolidge
Secretary

July 21 [186]5
Edw Austin Esq -

Dear Sir,

I have tried twice
to see you, and as I leave today
for a week, & fearing you may be
absent by the time I return. I
write to inquire if you acted indefan-
dently of Capt. Winsor's suggestion in
fixing Eleven hundred dollars for the
Vose lot, or whether you read his
1000, which he suggested, as 1100, as
the figures looked more like 1100 than
the hundred, in a note which he wrote
me. As he suggests to $140 referred first,
it makes the $1000 up to $1140 very near
the figures which you thought too high.

I will wait your reply before noti-
fying Mrs Vose.

Very Respy Yours
A.J. Coolidge

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