Mount Auburn Cemetery

33 School St. Boston, Jany. 13/62

Mr S.S. Perkins,

Sir,

Sometime since, at your request, I took a bill which you owe the Corporation, to confer with the proper officers about a reduction of the charge, and soon after notified you that I was prepared to answer you: but you have taken no notice of my answer that I am aware of.-

If you were ready to settle the bill, as you professed to be, I trust you will make it manifest, as it is more than a year old, and must be paid.

Yours resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Prop^r of Cemetery of Mount Auburn

33 School St Boston Jany. 13, 1862

Jos. B. Glover Esq Ex^or Est. Winthrop Ward

Dear Sir,

I perceive by the will of the late Mr Ward, that he directs the reconveyance of his lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery to our Coporation, with a limitation of the burial right, and that $300 be given to the Trustees to keep said lot in perpetual repair.

Shall I follow the usual course on all contracts with living persons, and bring the matter before the Committee on Lots who are charged with all contracts of this nature, and if they see no objection to accepting also trust the manner and for the amount indicated by Mr Ward, are you prepared to execute the needful papers?

Very Resp.y yours A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Prop^rs Cem. Mt. Au

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Boston, March 17, 1862

Jos. B. Glover Esq.

Dear Sir,

The Committee on Lots have considered the questions whether they will guarantee the perpetual care of the lot of the late Winthrop Ward for the sum specified in his will; and have unanimously come to the conclusion that they cannot give such guaranty for less than $600. The monument is quite elaborate, and they are unwilling to assume the risk for less than the sum named.-

But they are willing to receive the $300 named in the will on the usual terms stated in the by-laws, without their guaranty of perpetual care. In this case, they simply expend the income, in hand so there still be of no use to the responsible beyond amount - nor for the care of the lot beyond the failure of the fund, if it should ever become worthless by no fault of theirs.

Proprietors, however, often consider a donation in this way perfectly safe. There are more in number, that wish the guaranty.-

But I do not understand the clause of Mr Ward's will on this subject as requiring a guaranty. He certainly took the responsibility of giving $300, without inquiring of the other party to contract for guaranty of perpetual repair, and must therefore be presumed not to have intended that to be required, as we must also suppose that he had seen the by-laws in print.-

If you prefer to make up the amount to what the Comm^ee name, such a contract can be made.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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Boston July 14, 1862

Jos. B. Glover Esq.

Dear Sir,

Since meeting you three days since, I have handed the survey of the late Mr. Ward's lot in Mt Auburn, & the report of the Com. on Lots thereon to Mr. Andrews, and requested him to see the other members of the Committee with a view to a revision of their former decision.- The papers have been returned to us with the Committee's decision endorsed-to the effect that the Corporation will assume the perpetual care of said lot for $500- the fence to be painted as often as once in three years if required."

Truly yours,

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

33 School St Boston July 14/62

Dear Madam,

I enclose the accompanying circular, which has been sent to some too hundred of our proprietors (out of say 3200) whose lots have never been permanently marked with bounds; and responses have ben quite generally given directing granite posts to be set.

Besides your own proper lot enclosed with iron fence you have five lots exclusive of the one purchased for Mr Peabody, which, as laid out on our plan with passageway intervening would require about 20 posts.

No bounds have even been affixed until we drove temporary wooden stakes last autumn.-

I will wait upon you, if you desire further explanation, as I could show you upon a rough outline, in five minutes, the position of things.

Very Resp.y yours, Austin J. Coolidge Secretary Mt A

To Mrs Sam^l Appleton

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June 26^th^ [187]6.

S. T. Snow Esq

Dear Sir

I find that there are three graves in the Winthrop Ward lot and I have no means of knowing which is the one on which myrtle is to go. Did Mr Glover say to you which, or had I better send to him.

Yours very truly

J. W. Lovering