Mount Auburn Cemetery

Octo. 3 [186]4

Capt. D.L. Winsor

Dear Sir,

Please send me a report on the condition &c of lot 2820 Lawn Av^e (Mrs Deborah C. Powers) and an estimate of the cost of perpetual repair.—

Please explain your note in answer to 7^th question about the Parker lots 1250, 1315 & 1333 which is "3 pr steps into lots & 3 pr steps in the banks, without buttresses".—

Do you mean that those steps exist there & will make it practicable to require more than $1000, or that such steps should be erected before entereing upon the contract?.

Mrs Powers wishes immediately to pay the sum for hers.

How about the key to W.W. Stone's tomb, & bill?

Yours Truly A.J. Coolidge

If the weather is fine, I think I must see you tomorrow morning.

Octo. 3. 4 [186]4

Stephen F. Gates Esq.

My dear Sir,

The Committee on Lots have instructed me to notify you that the Corporation will contract for the perpetual repair of your lot on Laurel Avenue, No 3348, for four hundred and twenty five dollars.— This is the sum suggested by the Superintendent.

If this is satisfactory to you, I will prepare the necessary papers.—

Yours trule

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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Nov. 5 [186]4

Hon. Joel Parker, Esq^r & Trustee Cambridge Mass

Dear Sir,

I regret that there has been an accidental delay in giving a prompt reply to your request to know for what sum the Trustees of this Corporation would guarantee the perpetual good repair of Lots no.^s 1250, 1315 and 1333 in the Cemetery.

The question having been considered and reported upon, I am directed to inform you that the Corporation ^^will enter upon such a contract, upon payment of one thousand dollars. -- ($1000).

I have the honor & be Very Respectfully Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge

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Nov.^r 30, [186]4

Hon Joel Parker, Ex^or &c

My dear Sir,

I enclose a draft of the instrument which seems to me proper for the purpose required -- viz to complete the contract for the perpetual repair of lot nos. 1250, 1315 & 1333 in the Cemetery.

As you have failed to find me at the office, it will be no more than fair that I wait upon you, and I will endeavor to call at your office in the Law School, perhaps tomorrow before coming to town.

I am very respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Decem^r 8 [186]4

Mr. W^m C. Lears

Dear Sir,

I met you some weeks since, and you suggested that you were intending to come in the next week & finish the conveyance of the Spring lot &c.

I must request you once more not to delay this matter longer.

Yours respectfully

A.J. Coolidge Secretary

Decem^r 9 [186]4

Hon. Joel Parker,

Dear Sir,

I return the instrument which was made to express the terms of contract for the perpetual repair of lots 1250, 1315 & 1333 in this Cemetery, duly executed & recorded.

My charge in connection therewith is $5.- which, by the bylaws of this Corporation, is paid by the party for whose benefit the contract is made.

I enclose also one of our printed blanks for the designation of a person to repre-- sent lot No. 1250, under the Charter. The regu-- lations, you find at the foot of the blank. I am unable from my own knowledge to fill up the names of the children in order - which should be as they stood at the death of the testator, noting any who have died since.

I am very Resp.y your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge

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Dec.^r 20^th, [186]4

H.G. Parker Esq

Dear Sir,

I return the deed of lot 1333 in the Cemetery, having duly recorded the transfer from Mr Parker to his widow. --

The usual fee is $2. which please send at your convenience.

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Dec^r 20 [186]4

Chas. E. Savell Esq Roxbury, Mass.

Dear Sir,

I have been much pressed for time, or should have returned the petition to you sooner for execution.

If your father left a widow, please insert the fact and her name. If not, say "no widow" & erase the "whose name is." -- If your brother John left children, their name & residence should be inserted.

If under guardianship, the guardian should sign. --

I have at your request, changed the family name, in my catalogue.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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