Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 061)

Boston June 10, 1862
Mrs. C. P. Sumner

Dear Madam,

I have communicated
your request to have your lot
taken care of for the present year;
Mr. W^m H. Spooner Jr., the Gardener,
will take charge of the same
for ($3) three dollars. I was
requested by the lady who called
yesterday to return this infor-
mation.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y
Mt Auburn

Boston June 4, 1862
Geo. W^m Bond Esq Treas^r

Dear Sir,

At the meeting of the Trustees of Mount
Auburn June 2^d 1862, the following votes were
passed;-

"That the Committee on Grounds be au-
thorized to raise the upper part of the
Lawn one & a half feet higher than
it has already been raised, and
at an expense not exceeding $500.-"

That the Committee on Grounds
be authorized to complete the Receiving
Tomb now in progress, or a part
thereof, as they think proper,
at an expense not exceeding three
thousand five hundred dollars.
($3,500).-

That the Treasurer be authorized
to pay to Mr Spooner the amt of said Spooner's
note to Jona. Mann, amtg. to $250 and interest, being
one of the votes secured by the mortgage of the Greenhouse
now owned by the Trustees, upon the said note being deliver
[?} the Treas- canceled." [?]