Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 123)

transfer from you. And that is this -
that you hardly knew what you should
do — that you expected to remove the bodies
to New Hampshire; but your wife, it seems
from a subsequent conversation, was dis -
satisfied with your selling the lot, and
when I came to urge you to have the
bodies removed, before winter, you were
sorry you sold it, but promised to attend
to the matter very soon. You will, perhaps,
remember that you came to my office, &
proposed to go to Mt Auburn about it on
a certain day: but a deep snow came,
and nothing more was done. In order
to get you to make the removal of the bodies,
I told you, as instructed by Dr Bigelow,
that if you would be expeditious about
the removal, I did not doubt Mrs.
Hemenway would bear the expense
of it. Nothing had even then, so long
after the purchase, been said about your
buying another lot and the lot fitted
[?] for you: and it was with
[missing line?][astonishment that?]
I saw your name reported among
the orders for deeds of new lots, last
summer.

I do not see how you can have
got the idea that the expense of fitting up
a new lot for you in our Cemetery was to be
borne by Mrs H. or the Corporation. It
was an outright purchase of your lot for
$250, you to have liberty to remove to remove the fence
and your dead: & finally to hurry you this
offer was made to bear the expense of removing the
bodies. - So much for the bargain.

However, Dr Bigelow recommends you
to pay the bill, & go to Mrs Mary Hem-
enway, 40 Mt Vernon St & state the
facts to her, of your removing for her accom-
modation,— and he has no doubt she
will be disposed to do what is fair in
the matter.

Very respy. yours

A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y

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