Trustees Records, Vol. 3, 1859 (page 093)

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The secretary read the following letter addressed
to Mr Bond, the Treasurer in behalf of this Corporation.

Lot 1806 Application of Ex^or for sale of lot in discharge of bequest to Corporation _

Washington City
Oct 17 1859

Sir

The late Thomas O Larkin of Cal^a by his
last will, left the sum of $400. _ to the directors
or managers of Mt Auburn Cemetery the interest
of which to be applied to the care and protection
of two lots (1806 & 1807) in Spruce avenue, belonging
to himself & Otis Wright of Neponset.

The remains of Mr Larkin are interred
in Lone Mount Cemetery, San Francisco, and
his family are permanently settled in Cal^a
and the lot in Mt Auburn (No 1806, _ 360 ft)
will never be of any use to them. It was
their suggestion therefore, when I was in
San Fr^o last spring, that the lot be sold
and the proceeds devoted to the discharge of
the bequest. It is occurred to me, however,
that the corporation might be disposed to
become the purchaser, or receive the lot
in offset of the legacy. The two lots are
enclosed in one common fence, and
would require a division fence to separate
them, but No 1806 is entirely unoccupied,
and Mr Wright has no objection to a sale.

I address you in consequence of being one
of the executors named in the will of Mr Lar-
kin, & guardian of his minor children

Respfly [sic] E. L. Childs.