Mount Auburn Cemetery

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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Boston, 33 School St Jany, 11. [186]4

Mrs Lydia M. Allen & Mrs Mary B. Caulk Chelsea, Mass

Ladies,

Will you be so kind, as to send me word, at once, how you divide lots 3388 & 3389, which are in one enclosure. 3388 is Mrs Allen's & 3389 Mrs Caulks. I subjoin this sketch and will thank you to indicate by these figures, which owner the northerly and which the southerly side. I see that Mr Coffin's grave is on the north side of the centre line, and the grave without a headstone is on the south side.

The lot fronts to the eastward, & towards Oak Avenue. I have put in the numbers short of the last figure which by you adding 8 and 9 where they belong will show which each owns: or as you face the headstone, say which the left side belongs to, & which the right.

As soon as I receive your answer, your deeds will be ready.-

Respectfully yours.

A. J. Coolidge, Secretary

33 School St. Boston Jany 11 [186]4

Alvan Clark Esq Cambridgeport,

Dear Sir,

On the 16^th of Dec^r/63 an order was sent me by Mr Bond, our Treas^r for a deed (among others) of your lot, no. 3411, situated on Sumac Path, for which you paid $150. In his order, he includes a tomb right which I found from his books, soon after that date, had not been paid on; and of course I have delayed mailing the deed.

I understand from Capt. Winsor, our Superintendent, that he informed you of the rule requiring $50 additional fee for a tomb privilege - and now write you, lest you should have been under some misapprehension. If you do not wish the tomb privilege, please notify me.writing me. If you do, please send $50 to the Treas^r, Geo. W^m Bond, 167 Congress St.

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

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