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if the proprietors prefer to have two bonds, the Committee will issue them. The Trustees, however, will not contract for the preservation of one lot alone.”

The above reply, of course, is not intended to deprive any proprietor from exercising a right conferred by the by-laws of depositing any sum not less than $100 with [the] Corporation, the income of which will be devoted to the care of his or her lot, upon the usual terms of trust; It relates only to the guaranty of perpetual care.-

I am very respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge, Secy of the Prop^rs Cem.y of Mt. Auburn

Boston, ------- De^r 17 1863

Dear Sir, Will you be so kind as to confer with Mrs. Hemenway as to the reconveyance of her ^^burial lots with a view to receive a deed of the Corporation of the whole in one lot.

The transfer of lot 2297 from L.F. Merrill ran to the Corporation, & has not since been conveyed to Mrs. H.- Lot 1463 stands in the name of Augustus Hemenway. The two old lots contained 600 square feet.- Her lot as curbed contains 790 square feet. She must pay the Corporation for 190 feet of land, and as the land is all enclosed in one curb, it is impraticable to have more than one number, which should be her old one – 1463. As lots are indivisible, on order to preserve unity of title, I see no way but for the Trustees of Mr H to reconvey 1463 to the Corporation, & a new deed be made to Mrs. H. of 790 feet.

Very rspfly yours A.J.Coolidge

I have fact rec^d & recorded the deed of ornamental grounds & fountain to Mrs. H. - which she will probably receive tomorrow or next day.

Boston, March 10, 1865 T. Quincy Browne Esq^r

Dear Sir,

I owe you an apology for seeming to neglect you so long in the matter of deed for Mrs A. Hemenway, but I have had an unusual pressure of business, besides being out of the State a short time.

However, I left the deed with the Treas^r about a week since, that you might receipt for it on his books. I believe there is nothing due at the Treasurer's, at least, not on my account, but I send you a small bill for my services, which you can enclose to me at your convenience. --

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

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Augustus Hemenway Esq

To A.J. Coolidge [Dr?]

1862 Oct 25

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Deed to Mary Hemenway.

Know all men by these presents, that the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, in consideration of six thousand dollars, paid to them by Mary Hemenway, wife of Augustus Hemenway, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said Mary Hemenway and her heirs and assigns, a certain piece of land in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, situated, bounded and measuring as follows, (as shown upon a plan of land made by Shedd and Edson, a copy whereof is hereto annexed; _ Beginning on the westerly side of Cactus Path, at the intersection of the same with Thistle Path, thence running westwardly by said Thistle Path to Cistus Path, thence southwardly by said Cistus Path to Cowslip Path, thence eastwardly by Cowslip Path to Cactus Path, thence northwardly by Cactus Path to the point of beginning,) containing fifteen thousand two hundred and five (15,205) square feet, more or less.

To have and to hold the aforegranted premises unto the said Mary Hemenway, her heirs and assiged forever, for ornamental purposes, upon the following conditions; viz.

First: That no part of said premises shall ever be used as a place for burial for the dead: but the whole of said premises shall forever remain as a part of the open grounds of the Cemetery: _

Second: That no alterations shall be made in