Mount Auburn Cemetery

73

April 8^th [187]6

Edw^d T. Doesser Esq

Dear Sir

As I learn that you were much disappointed on visiting the Cemetery lately, to find your lot unfinished, I desire to explain how this happened.

The stone for Mr Carter's lot was received November 19^th & was set and the sodding finished Nov 27^th and was one of the last, if not the very last lot sodded last fall as after December 1^st the weather rarely allows us to carry on any work requiring sodding.

On the 30^th day of November the stone for your lot was rec'd and it was set before Dec 11^th.

I should have been exceedingly glad to have finished the tomb last fall, but the stone was received so late that it was impossible. It shall be finished early this spring.

This explanation will I trust be satisfactory.

Respectfully J.W. Lovering Supt.