Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston Dec. 7, 1863

C. U. Cotting Esq.

Dear Sir,

I have conferred with the Committee on Lots of our Cemetery, upon the question proposed by you - whether they would allow Mrs Willard to take charge of her lot ^^{no. 801}, during her lifetime, and would place to her credit a certain proportion of the income of the fund of three hundred and fifty ($350) dollars to meet any bills which she may authorize for such care: ~

And I am authorized to say that they will assent to this arrangement, and will place five per centum of such principal to her credit for such care.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y of Mt Auburn Cem.y

33 School St Boston

Dec^r 9, 1863

Mrs. John Blood

Madam,

I wrote you some weeks since asking you if you had decided whether to take your lot in the rectangular form, in which it was first reported, ie, 15 ft by 20 ft or whether to extend one side of it back according to the land there is there, as recommended you by the Superintendents and have received no reply from you.-

It is important that I should be informed, until which time I can make you no deed.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Secretary of Mt Auburn

Please send your reply to me..

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33 School Street, Boston, Dec^r 30, [186]3

Mr W^m H. Blood 77 Franklin St

Dear Sir,

I enclose you a note written to Mrs John Blood by myself & rec^d again by me from the dead letter office under date of Dec^r 18^th & since writing it & before its return from Washington, I have written her another addressed in the same way to her at Charlestown, to which I have rec^d no reply .- Ascertaining who was cutting a curb for the lot, I inquired of Mr Hutchinson and obtained your address.

Will you please get the deed from our Trea. Mr Bond (167 Congress St.) and confer with your mother - then with me? If the curb is being cut as Mr Hutchinson told me 16f x 17f x 18f x 18f the deed (which I returned to the Treas^r despairing of hearing from Mrs Blood, & which gives the dimensions of lot as 15 x 20 f) should be corrected.

Please see that the other letter is not sent for to the dead letter office.

Yours resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt.

Boston, ----Dec^r 31, [186]3

Capt D.L. Winsor Sup^t

Dear Sir,

Please report upon the condition of the Cedar Hill Enclosure, belonging to W^m Appleton. I send a blank supposing you might not have the contents at hand.

Please not allude to Mrs Sam. Appleton's or Mrs Peabody's lot-, as they form no necessary part of the enclosure, and Mr A. will not think of providing for them.

The lots 3363, 3364, 3388, 3389 in the rear of Acanthus Path, which I understood you were posted, Curtis has not on the plan. He says he noticed them as being only staked.

Have you ever found my note of Christmas Day?

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

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