Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 414)

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16 Pemberton Sq.

May 9 [186]8

Geo W^m Bond Esq

Dear Sir,

Capt. Winsor says that you have
requested him to sell two old lots belonging to the Corporation.
I presume you mean those contained on your annual report
nos. 567 & 592. --

Lot 567 on Indian Ridge Path belonged to Sam^l S. Curtis,
which he transf^d to the Corpⁿ Nov. 1, 1853 for $100. -- The number
has been applied to a lot in another part of the Cemetery & such
lot has been sold. The land which is nearly identical with
old 567 on Indian Ridge, as I find by plan, is shown by the
record to have been sold on the 12^th of July 1864 as lot 3493
on Rosebay Av. to Mrs B.C. Clark for $360. But there are
480 feet in lot 3497 while 567 contained but 300 ft --

Lot 592 was on Mayflower Path (as then named).
This ^^{with the tomb} the Corpⁿ bought June 14, 1862 of James Phalen for $215.

The land has since been graded, & if not already
sold as some new lot near the junction of Ash Av.
with Fountain (on Ash) very soon will be. The locality is
probably ^^partly in the rear of lot 3608 cor. of Fountain & Ash, & partly
covered by lot 3608 -- which was sold, to the heirs of Eli Jones
for $2 per foot.

If the Horticultural Society have shared a second time
without right in the sales, it is probably not worth while to disturb it now.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y