Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 6 [186]5

F. Smith & Son

Gentlemen,

Please send to me the order for the interment of Goddard in lot 1817 owned heirs of late Catherine Phinney & represented by Mrs Cath. B. Goodale of Boston. -- made on 28^th of April, by you.

No facts have come to me for record -- only this surname from Mr Safford.

Please not delay it longer than absolutely necessary.

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

June 6 [186]5

John Peak Esq

Dear Sir,

I did not think, after calling twice at your place, I should have to ask you again for the returns of the four interments and two removals made by you on April 28^th -- but so it is.

Will you be so kind as to forward them at once, to oblige

Yours Resp.y

A.J. Coolidge

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June 20 [186]5

Messrs Franklin Smith & Son

Gentlemen,

I regret that I should be obliged to ask you again if you, who have borne so high a character for promptness in making your returns, the order for interment, with facts, of a body ^^interred on 27^th of April 1865 in lot of late Catherine Phinney no 1817 on Sorrel Path. The lot is the only memo. I have as yet, if that is correct. All else on the record -- name, age &c, &c -- stands as blank.

Mrs Catherine B. Goodall of Boston, a daughter, is a daughter.

Please do not delay this matter longer --

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

June 22 [186]5

C.H.P. Plympton Esq

Dear Sir,

I send you the contract ready for your signature & for paying over the amount mentioned therein. Not thinking you were absent from town, I added the lot to the Committee list for the semi-annual inspection today, for which reason only I desire an early payment.

In reply to your question, I will say that the amount is intended to cover the lot and "all" its appartenances. It is the appartenances -- such as an expensive monument --which, in the judgment of the Committee required rather more than you anticipated.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

I wish it settled as early as 1^st July, if convenient.

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is a copy: _

Report of Com^ee on Monum^t to Heroes _

"The Committee to whom was referred the subject of a monument to Soldiers &c. request leave to Report:

That they approve of the suggestion of the President that this Corporation contribute towards the erection, at Mount Auburn, of a monument to the brave citizens who have fallen in defence of the Laws, during the Civil War. That if the Trustees concur with the Committee, then they would suggest, that, in addition to the model already before them, Artists be invited to send in designs for the inspection of the Board.

Respectfully submitted Edward Austin for the Com^ee

On motion of Mr Little, The report was accepted.

Com^ee on Mon^t to Heroes authorized to invite designs by different Artists _

On motion by Mr Cheever, Voted to refer the whole subject back to the same Committee with power to invite designs and report thereon to this Board:

Rep^s of Lots

Representatives for lots were designated as follows: _

215

Lucy N. Goodwin of Boston, widow of Ozias Goodwin late proprietor of lot numbered 215 to represent that lot: _

1817

Catherine B. Goodall of Boston daughter of Catherine Phinney, dec^d late prop^r of lot numbered 1817 to represent said lot. _

Adjourned Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Secy