Trustees Records, Volume 2, 1854 (page 042)

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I now announce through you to the Trustees my
unchangeable determination to withdraw at once from
the post of Superintendent of the Cemetery of Mount
Auburn, which I have now filled for several years,
and I beg the Trustees to allow this resignation to
take effect at the earliest date which is consistent
with the due arrangement of the details incident
to the change.

The severe and painful sickness of my wife, will
prevent my immediately vacating the house which I now
occupy, but I will do so as soon as possible. I
should be glad to have this letter entered at length
upon the Trustees records."

With respect yours etc.
(Signed) Rufus Howe Superintendent

Mr Howe's resignation accepted—

After some remarks by different gentlemen, resolution
of which the following is a copy, were offered by Mr Gould,
and adopted.—

Resolutions in regard to Mr Howe

"Whereas Mr Rufus Howe has tendered
to this Board the resignation of his Office of Superintendent
of Mount Auburn, which he has so long & so acceptably
filled: we should not do justice to Mr Howe or to our own
feelings, did we permit this occasion to pass without some
expression of our sense of his eminent personal worth, &
of the faithful services he has rendered to this Corporation

Be it therefore
Resolved, that this Board have received,
and do accept with regret, the resignation by Mr Howe
of the Office which, for so many years, he has held in this