Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 008)

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33 School St. , Boston
Jany. [10?] 1861

Mrs V. A. Shedd
Watertown Mass

Dear Madam, I lately made
a deed to you as proprietor of
lot No. 3058 in Mt Auburn under
the name of Mrs Vernon A Shedd.

In making up the register of interments,
I have past discovered that the order
for the interment of your husband gives
him the name of Varnum A Shedd.

Of course one or the other must
be wrong. Will you please state,
by return of mail, which name
is correct, and oblige

Yours truly
A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y Mt Auburn

33 School St. Boston Jany. 23/61
Alex^r Wadsworth, Esq

Dear Sir, I have seen Mr
Mann, and sought an expla-
nation of the changes made upon
the plan, or rather, required to be
made by his mistake in not
using the old numbers. He says
it was his mistake, which he sought
to rectify at the Treasurer's office before
the deeds were ordered, but found
it was too late.

The number 3013 has been given to
what was 537 on Olive Path, and
3054 to what was 2139 (not
2137 as you state) on Hibiscus Path.

As nobody has been harmed,
I see no need of going to the Trus-
tees -but simply to erase a location
opposite to the old numbers in the
catalogue, and put the new number in
the plan in place of the old. Nothing
else now, of course, can be done.

If you are unwilling to make
the change without a vote, please notify
me before next Monday, and I will
have you authorized.

Truly yours A.J. Coolidge
Secretary