Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Dec^r 27 [186]5

Capt D.L. Winsor

Dear Sir,

I omitted yesterday to state that at Mr J.C. Merrill's request for a number with four figures to be given him, for the lot of Mr Ward his brother in law, I gave him 3376. This number was on a little lot which was sold to Hannah A. Morse, in rear of 888 Poplar Av., and transferred back to the Corpⁿ before she died. So, if you have put a stake there to indicate ^^{a lot for sale by that no.} please have it changed to the east half of J.C. Merrill's on Snowdrop Path.

That lot will be then - S.E. half Hen. V. Ward 3376 - N.W. J.C.M. 3487.

Geo. W. Livermore Esq. of Camb. called in again today, & as he is anxious to settle his bill with the Corpⁿ wishes you would correct the report of lots 3509, 3510, -- M.H. Livermore & P.F. Folsom, on Clematis Path, so that they will stand 300 feet each (if that is what they contain, as appears from the book of Shedd's plan) instead of 326 ft. as before: and instruct the Treas^r to give them a credit of $65 on the bill. I promised him you would bring it in on Saturday.

Mr W^m C. Murdock wishes you to bring in the bill on the Vose lot next Saturday, and would like to meet you here at 12 o'clock. If you can fix the report to include the cap on the monument, he will pay in the fund so as to be included in this year's rep^t. He p^d $450 on the Ward lot today.

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

Sept^r 10 [186]6

Jos. C. Merrill Esq

Dear Sir,

Please refund Cont. for Pertpet^l Rep. to 2121 finally passed upon and recorded.

By one of the strange anomalies the Corporation charges you for receiving money of you, that is to say - the charge for drawing, getting execution of and recording the contract is $5. which you can remit at your convenience.

Truly yours,

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Sept^r 10 [186]6

Capt. D.L. Winsor

Dear Sir,

Contracts for repair of lots have been taken this year as follows: -

	When Paid in	Guaranty	G. means.
2517 -	Josiah Vose -	Feby 5, 1866 -	G.	1100.
3031.	Nathn J. Wyeth -	Dec. 26, 1865 -	G.	500
291 -	Chas. T. Hildreth -	Apr. 2, 1866 -	G.	375
1248 -	Otis Everett -	Aug 6, 1866	-	200.
2121	Chas. Sunders -	June 16 1866	G.	500
1142 -	Sophia M. Cogswell -	July 10 1866	G.	300
177 -	Isaac S. Spring	Sept 10 1866	G.	400

Please send me reports on following: -

1841 -	P.C. Brooks - (Sturgis lot)
2000	Abraham Hilliard -
3572	Georgiana Haliburton

Yours truly A.J. Coolidge

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Mann Jona.	1, 12, 15, 17, 19, 25, 26, 31, 467
Marsh Levi H	3.
Murray Washington	71.
Marden David M.	117.
Merrill L.F.	122 437
Moulton Newell	151.
Messenger G.W.	195
Mackintire Geo. E.	203.
Marett Philip	226, 255, 273, 275, 279.
Murdock, Wm C.	279 304
Maynard, Messers,	287
Marshall, Caleb S.	296
Merrill, Jas. C.	342
Mack, John,	383
Messinger, C.R.	449
Merrill, Wm D.	465

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Application of Jas. C. Merrill to reconvey his lot no. 3487, & to receive two deeds of same _ referred to Mr Bowditch _

Mr Bowditch presented the written request, of James C. Merrill Esq. proprietor of lot numbered 3487 stating that he purchased said lot upon the erroneous information _ or at least upon the erroneous inference from certain information _ that if the whole should prove larger than he desired, he could convey a portion of it to another; that having entered into the purchase of it with Mr Henry V. Ward, he had ascertained that he could not convey to Mr Ward one half as a distinct interest, unless so authorized by the Trustees and he asked that he might reconvey his lot to the Corporation and that two deeds might issue to himself and Mr Ward.

Voted that the subject be referred to Mr Bowditch with full power: _

Letter of John T. Heard containing extract of will of Eliz. F. Gurney respecting her tomb _ lot no. 815.

A communication was received from John T. Heard Esq. a copy of which follows, and it was voted to extend the same upon the records.

Boston, November 20^th 1865

Dear Sir:

I beg to call the attention of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery to the following extract from the will of the late Mrs. E.F. Gurney, as it provided for keeping in repair her burial lot in the Cemetery under their charge:

"30. I give and devise to the Trustees of the Newton "Theological Institution, all that parcel of land with