Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 035)

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33 School St Boston, Nov^r 23, 1861

J.W. Converse Esq
Ex^or of J.B. Whall,

Dear Sir, Our Corporation is
having a new survey of the Cemetery on an
enlarged scale, and it is impossible to show
those lots which have no visible bounds.
The Whall lot, although containing a
very expensive structure, has no stone
or other posts to mark the corners; and
as the backs are quite high & slope in
different directions the measurement
at any time is not quite so easy.

Every proprietor's deed requires him to
put down permanent bounds of stone
or iron.

Will you authorize four posts
to be put down at the corners? - this
expense will not exceed $10. -

Will you also have our Surveyor
Mr Wadsworth, make a plan to
enter in our portfolio, for the sake
of more minute & accurate descrip-
tion than can be shown on our
ordinary plan?

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y Mt Auburn Cemy

33 School St Boston
Nov^r 25, 1861

Mr W^m W. Appleton,

Dear Sir,

I shall have again
to remind you of the fact I
mentioned to you a few days since,
that the body of your child had
remained in our Receiving Tomb
far beyond the time allowed -
and of your promise to go to
Mt Auburn between the 12^th
of Nov^r (when I saw you) and
the 20^th to select a lot and
take steps for the removal.

I trust you will set it
down for the first fair day.

Yours resp.y

A.J. Coolidge
Secretary