Mount Auburn Cemetery

Price of Guides

In relation to the price according to Mr Spears account there was an alteration.

He thinks that Fred paid as high as seventeen cents, wholesale^^{and retailed at .25} and he Spear paid twenty cents, and retailed them for 30 cents. T. H. Safford

On receipt of the above I requested Mr Safford to see Messrs, R. & R. & [?] them as to their price for selling out. their answer to him is enclosed— C.W.F. Superintendent

Mount Auburn Wednesday March 19, 19th 1873 Colonel Folsom

Sir I went this day to the office of Messrs Russell and Richardson to make inquiry in relation to Mount Auburn Guides. The balance of their last edition was destroyd by the Boston fire on the 9th of November last. In relation to a new edition I found them undecided, they say they have as much business on hand as they can attend to properly and would be glad to sell out. The plates were at the printers office and were saved. I regard it as very uncertain whether or not they will publish a new edition this Spring.

T.H. Stafford over

404

Mt. Auburn Nov. 14. 1873

John T. Bradlee Esq Chairman Comm. on Grounds.

Dear Sir

I give you below a list of the men whose services I value the most & whom I should be glad to keep thru the winter. If you will approve, I shall then be able to give a few days notice to all to be discharged. Unless the season is unusually open, I would propose to reduce the number to 25 on Dec. 1_st, if our top dressing, the covering of myrtle, and other orders are nearly enough finished to admit.

3

33 School St. Boston Nov. 22/60 Mr. T. H. Safford

Dear Sir,

Will you please enclose Mr. Raymond's bill which I left with you as he has called for them. I met Mr. Apple and he insists that he took care of the lot for the years '58, '59 and '60. If that is so, then $2 should be refunded from what the Corporation has received on the '57 bill paid twice.

I wish also you would make out a bill of $15 (I think it was) charged some two or three years since against Mr John [N.?] Brown of Charlestown, for foundation to monument &c.-lot 888- The bill has been lost and I would like another with the date and charge.

Yours truly A. J. Coolidge

33 School St. Boston. Dec^r 26, 1860

Levi H. Marsh Esq

My dear Sir,

The Committee on Lots of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, have directed me to inform you that the Corporation will contract to keep in perpetual repair and preservation lots numbered 457, 459 and 480 in the Cemetery as the lowest rate fixed by the By-laws, viz. there hundred dollars for each lot.

I am very truly yours,

A. J. Coolidge Secretary.