Mount Auburn Cemetery

Decm^r 8 [186]4

B.F. Atkins Esq.

Dear Sir,

I regretted to hear yesterday from C.C. Little Esq. that you had for years felt aggrieved with me on the ground (as you supposed) that after having been paid by you the usual fee for filing your affidavit as sole heir at law of Benj. Atkins to lot No. 62 in Mt Auburn, I had neglected to record you title or make the same appear.

I do not learn that you ever called upon or inquired of me whether I had done my duty in the matter, but by some means had come to the conclusion that I had omitted to do it. I must therefore infer that you arrived at this conclusion by forgetting the date when you made your affidavit and examining some edition of the catalogue antedating your affidavit.

The facts I find from record are -

Affidavit of Benj. F. Atkins as sole heir at law of Benj. Atkins filed July 31. 1857 -

The only edition of the Catalogue of Lots & Proprietors published since that date was issued in June 1860. That edition contains your name printed as such sole heir both in the numerical & alphabetical part of the catalogue.

The previous edition, if you will examine, was printed as early May 1, 1857, and was distributed among the proprietors in June of that year, at least a month before your affidavit.

I am Very Respy, your Ob^t Serv^t

Austin J. Coolidge

P.S. I mailed between 1700 & 1800 of the Catalogue of 1860 to Boston Proprietors, & find your name checked as one to whom a copy was sent.--

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