Mount Auburn Cemetery

Subject: charges for opening grave

[Letterhead: INCORPORATED 1847 logo of a flowering branch THE PROPRIETORS OF SWAN POINT CEMETERY. SAMUEL H. FIELD, SEC. & TREAS. 35 NORTH MAIN ST.

TIMOTHY M^cCARTHY, SUPT. SWAN POINT.

Providence, R.I. Nov 17th 1890 ]

J.W. Lovering

My Dear Sir

Our Catalogue and I presume many others have a price stated of $5.00 for opening and interment of adults in plain grave. Our ground not being prepared more than a foot deep in the older portion we meet many rocks, and stones caving in of the sides &c. so that I could not see any money in this work at $5.-- and have increased the price to $8.-- this includes covering the Earth with green when we have the material and time and governed somewhat by the standing & wealth of the family, also the watering of graves if opened in dry time, the filling up of the grave and sodding when the box decays at some future day, shovelling sufficient walks in snow time and covering the lot with wooden walks in wet or snowy weather, In all this there is certainly no money at $5.-- But since Undertaker or somebody has complained to the Directors, and they may have an idea that the price is Exorbitant or more than other places charge