Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 156)

"lily of the valley" planted - which she
thinks will grow, as the sun falls there morn--
ings, but does not expect to have the
grass kept green - perhaps would like
a border. There are not more than four
persons to be buried there - does not wish
any fence or monument other than such
headstones as may be needed for those who
may be interred: wishes to reconvey the
lot to the Corporation. With what she proposes,
it cannot possibly cost the Corporation $5 per
annum. The only question is, if we take
it in the state in which it now is, what
can be done to it annually. Will you sug--
gest the probable first outlay for what she
wishes - viz. digging stump out, making border
on path, and planting the lily of the valley.

If the $300 will be insufficient, she will
probably let it remain accumulating until
it amounts to enough, unless she should
be able to add more to it. I told her
that the trees would some time perhaps
be taken down - then the lot ought to
be put as a condition for green grass there -
She prefers the trees there - selected the lot
on account of them; but feels annoyed at
its present forsaken appearance, and was led
just now to giving the $300 partly because
the lot looks so, and partly because the
next lot Mrs. Fairchild's is left so neglected.

Please report on this Saturday if con--
venient.

And now descending the hill, view another
which has been inquired about since
I began to ask you to look at Mrs. Church-
ill's -- the

Murray lot no. 587. belong--
ing to the 1^st Universalist Soc.y - situ--
ated on Moss Path. But little has
been done to it for some years, & if I
remember, but little can be done to it.
The Society is about dissolving and wishes
to convey this lot to the Corpⁿ with a
fund of about say $160 ($159 in March last)
which has been accumulating for some time.
It contains 136 square feet. This is somewhat
different from a private lot. I suppose there
may be nobody that feels enough interest to
add to the fund if insufficient, but perhaps
it is enough to put & keep it in repair.

Truly yours

A. J. Coolidge
Sec.y

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