Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 029)

33 School St Boston, Oct. 17, 1861.

Geo Penniman Esq
Treas^r Granite Railway Co.

Dear Sir,

I have been instructed to
forward you a copy of a vote of
the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cem-
etery, passed at a meeting of the
Board Oct. 7, 1861. - which is
as follows: -

"Voted that the Committee on
Grounds be instructed by the
Board to give notice to the con-
tractors for the granite front of
the new catacomb tombs in
course of construction between
Rosebay and Culvert Ave-
nues, that this Corporation
will not accept said granite
front on account of imperfections
in the stones, and for defective
construction."

I am
Resp.y yours,
Austin J. Coolidge
Secretary of Mount Aub.
Cem.ly

33 School St. Boston,
Sept^r 18, 1861

W^m. B. Bacon Esq

Dear Sir,

It appears from
a recent interment in Mr D.G. Bacon's
lot in Mt Auburn, that your
numbers upon the lot have not
been made to correspond with
those of your deeds, and as in the
Catalogue of Proprietors. I have
ascertained that the numbers
have been cut upon the Stone;
hence it is impracticable to attempt
correction there.

The only course, therefore, left
for you is to transfer your deed
to your brother, & he the same to
you. Unless you do this, some
future interment will be the occasion
of a mortifying blunder by opening a
grave in the wrong lot.

I will attend to the matter for
you at any time; but shall have
to charge you for the
record.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge
Secretary.

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