Mount Auburn Cemetery

Nov.^r 14 [186]5

Henry Gurney Esq

Dear Sir,

The Committee on Lots have directed me to inform you that this Corporation will accept the trust for the perpetual repair of your lot no. 1014 on Fir Avenue, in its present condition for the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.)

The Superintendent reports that the lot is wanting new grading & sodding. If the Corporation undertake to do this, you will not have to wait until another year, when it can be done.

Very Resp.y yours

Austin J. Coolidge Sec.y

Nov. 14 [186]5

D. W. Cunningham Esq Worcester, Mass.

Dear Sir,

Yours of yesterday inquiring if grave can be opened as late as Dec^r 4 is before me. I say without doubt -- yes! It would be very unusual for more than two or three inches of frost to get in before that, and often not much till near Christmas. We should not mind a few inches. You must run your own risk of weather.

The point of residence I believe you settled in favor of Boston. If you have occasion to change it, please inform me, as we are rapidly making up the catalogue.

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

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Nov. 24 [186]5

Dear Sir,

In reply to your favor of Nov. 20^th I have to reply that all communications for work to be done in the Cemetery should be addressed to "Capt. D. L. Winsor, Sup^t, Mount Auburn Mass."

The men under him who has the special charge of funerals, removals internments & removals is W^m K. Safford, for whom when you come down you will naturally inquire, after being directed about your business by letter.

Truly yours,

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

D.W. Cunningham Esq

Nov. 24 [186]5

Dear Sir,

I have past rec^d a letter from John Dowley, dated "New Orleans, 10^th Nov. 1865" in reply to a note addressed to him at New York, answering my inquiry. The letter is silent as to whether New Orleans is now Mr Dowley's place of residence.

As we are making up a new catalogue of the Prop^rs of lot in our Cemetery, & Mr Dowley, is prop^r of lot 1789, will the person who may open this in New York be so kind as to inform me, whether Mr D's residence shall be still entered "New York" or whether it is New Orleans.

Respectfully A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

John Dowley, Esq

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Representation of Lots _

Upon the petitions of the several parties in interest representatives were designated for lots as follows: _

1 David W. Cunningham of Boston, guardian of the grandchildren, heirs of Henry H. Fuller, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 1;

128 Mary Ann F. Wells of Boston, daughter of Martin Smith, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 128;

183 Henry T. Davis of Malden, son of Betsey Davis, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 183;

185 Georgiana Smith, of Boston, daughter of George Whittemore, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 185;

503 Eliza H. Haven, of Sing Sing, N.Y., daughter of Thomas Haven, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 503;

524 Mary Loring, of Newton, sister of W^m J. Loring, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 524;

659 Caroline B. Hill, of Lowell, daughter of Otis Fairbanks, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 659;

692 Hiram W. Brooks, of Cambridge, grandson of Lois Mason, deceased, proprietor of lot numbered 692;