Mount Auburn Cemetery

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#794-S

Nov. 13, 1888

Simeon E. Baldwin, Esq. New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:-

Your note is received, enclosing $2.00 and requesting a report and opinion on the inscription just cut on the Marett monument. A receipt for the amount is herewith enclosed. The inscription is as given below, except that the name Martha B. Marett is cut in a semi-circle to conform to the moulding of the die and to the other inscription.

The workmanship is fair.

Respectfully yours,

Supt

MARTHA B. MARETT

DAUGHTER OF

JOSIAH KNAPP,

WIDOW OF

PHILIP MARETT

DIED SEPT. 2, 1878

AGED 82 YEARS

March 18, [186]5

Philip Marett Esq New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir,

Yours of 16^th relating to your lot no. 794, addressed to our Treas^r Geo. W^m Bond has been handed to me.

I have taken steps to obtain for you the requisite information, and will report to you in a few days.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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May 12, [186]5

Philip Marett Esq New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir,

Yours of 8^th last is at hand. I had not completed the requisite preliminaries at the date of its reception.

I am now directed by the Com^ee on Lots, who have considered your application, to inform you that the Corporation will assume the perpetual care and preservation of lot 794 alone for $350. but as this lot is enclosed with lot 462, so that both can be better managed together, they will assume the care of both for $600. --

This estimate will not, of course, form any basis for future negotiations, or bind the Corporation, if the am^t named is left by all, as a Board of Trustees chosen annually cannot bind their successors. It is only a present estimate. --

Very Resp.y yours,

A.J. Coolidge, Sec.y

May 19, 1865

Miss Eliza S. Quincy

Dear Madam

Our surveyors Messrs Shedd & Edson have sent me a sketch of your family lot from which the following is copied:

[diagram: measurements]

This would make a very beautiful lot, if the heirs would incline to remove the iron fence & enclose the whole with a granite border. Iron fences must in the nature of things be temporary. An iron fence will look stiff and angular here, while a graceful could

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Aug 30 [186]5

My dear Sir,

Your draft for three hundred & fifty dollars payable to the order of our Treas, together with the instrument of donation was rec^d this morning, & handed in at the Gate office. The Treas^r is expected back within a week, when the funds can be made available. It being vacation month, & members of our Com^ee being away, I may be unable to return your document executed within three or four weeks but will do so as soon as possible.

Very respy Your Ob^t Serv^t

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

Philip Marett Esq.

Sept^r 7, [186]5

Capt. D. L. Winsor

Dear Sir,

Mr Philip Marett, prop^r of lot 794 Willow Av. has paid the $350 required on his lot, but I find that, through inadvertence, I said nothing to him about repairs antecedent to the contract: and he will no doubt think he has paid enough.

Will you be so kind as to examine & inform me what these necessary repairs will cost, at the lowest estimate.

There appears to be a disposition with some of the Com^ee, if they will not cost too much, to not ^^to open the matter to him again.

As he has only two headstones, I am inclined to think we can get along well enough with it.

Truly yours

A. J. Coolidge

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Octo. 9 [186]5

P. Marett Esq New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir,

I return the contract for perpetual repair of lot 794 at last, duly executed. I do not wonder that you thought there was unnecessary delay: but so it has happened. At first, there was a question about repairs upon the lot -- That having been settled, one of the Com^ee was absent, another had death in his family, & so I return it as soon as I have been able to do so. --

Please forward me five dollars as the fee for making & recording papers & oblige

Your Ob^t Serv^t

A.J. Coolidge

Octo. 9 [186]5

W^m. C. Murdock Esq

Dear Sir,

I am directed by the Com^ee on Lots to inform you that they will recommend the Trustees to guarantee the perpetual repair of your own lot no 3000 -- on payment of four hundred dollars: -- and of lot belonging to the heirs of Jas. O. Ward, no. 1502, on payment of four hundred and fifty dollars.

Very Resp.y yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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