Mount Auburn Cemetery

[letterhead:] PAKENHAM HOOKER & Co.

ROME

le 24 Mai 1856 Amt.$1500._ N^o. 13.8.99

A cinq jours de recue payer par cette Première de Change la Seconde ne l'étant a l'ordre de Mess.^rs Pakenham Hooker & Co. la somme de Mille cinq cents Dollars __ Valeur reçue que vous passerez au Compte "of the Proprietors of the Mount Auburn Cemetery" suivant l'avis de

Randolph Rogers

A Monsieur Jacob Bigelow Boston U S of Amer.

Boston June 20th, 1856 Approved Jacob Bigelow committee To Geo. W Bond treasurer

Randolph Rogers conveyance of J Adams statue.

Dr Jacob Bigelow Boston United States

Canada

25¢

{stamp: Boston Aug 13 24} {stamp: Liverpool AU 1 1857 7}

[stamp: 19 cents]

{stamp: PAKENHAM HOOKER ROME}

Randolph Rogers Care L Edgerton & Dunning No 21 Park Row N.Y.

Rome Care Packenham Hooker & Co No 20 Piazza di Spagna

Dr. Bigelow Mt. Vernon Street

per Steamer via Liverpool Erikson

Jacob Bigelow president of Mt Auburn Cemetery Boston Mass. U.S. America

[stamp: in black ink BOSTON 14 JUN 24] [stamp: in black ink, LIVERPOOL MY29 1856] [stamp:in blue ink, PAKENHAM HOOKER & Co ROME.] [stamp: in black ink, 3 CENTS]

Thomas Crawford Notice of draft for $2500, Rome May 21 1856

The plaster model will then revert to the estate of Mr Crawford, and, I think, had better remain in Rome, so that in case of accident a new statue may be constructed after it. And here let me suggest the expediency of having the statue insured for a sum sufficient to pay for a duplicate in marble if the original should be lost. A statue of John Adams by Randolph Rogers, & one of Webster by Powers, are supposed to be lost having been shipped from Leghorn in the Oxford Sept. 1 & not since heard from. Mr Rogers prudently $2500. which will compensate him he thinks for making another statue.

You will pereceive that the expense of freight insurance &c, will be payable by Mr Crawford's estate. But upon the delivery of the statue at the wharf in Boston, the Trustees of Mount Auburn will assure the expense of removing it to the Cemetery & setting it up.

The pedestal included in the contract should be made to match that of Mr Rogers' J Adams to which it will stand opposite. Mr R has just sailed for Europe, & you will doubtless find it advantageous to consult or employ him in this part of the business. His address is "Care of Packenham Hooker & Co 20 Piazza di Spagna, Rome.

The statue should be shipped to Boston (not New York) in the spring if a vessel is ready

Accept dear madam the assurance of my respect & sympathy

Jacob Bigelow