Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 056)

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Boston April 28.1862

E.L. Childs Esq.
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir, It is some two or
three years since the lot of the late Thos.
C. Larkin was mentioned to me by you
as one for sale. We have had several
letters pass on this subject & on the
endowment, and I have made several
efforts for the sale of it, and at last
found a customer who has taken
it at your price: and has paid over
the $500 to Mr Erving and I suppose
the money has reached you before
this time.

As Mr Erving appeared to have no
instructions but to deliver the deed, I
said nothing to him about my services,
and concluded it was best to
suggest the matter directly to you
only. If you are satisfied to
pay me $5., I shall think, and
hope it may so appear to you, that
the fee was well earned.-

I urged the sale to Mr Pierce,
because I believed it as much
for the interest of the Larkin
Estate as for him - for it would
be seldom that I could find
a man willing to pay $500 for
a lot situated just as this one
is. People do not like a double ter-
race, nor to occupy a lot in
common with a stranger, and
I have found most persons object
to this lot for those reasons.

I find the deed antedates the
contract for repair of lot, but as
that cont. same with the lot,
regardless of ownership, the date is
immaterial. -

I have the honor to be
Very respy. your Ob^nt Servant

A.J. Coolidge