Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 266)

June 20 [186]5

Messrs Franklin Smith & Son

Gentlemen,

I regret that I should
be obliged to ask you again if you, who
have borne so high a character for
promptness in making your returns,
the order for interment, with facts,
of a body ^^interred on 27^th of April 1865 in
lot of late Catherine Phinney no 1817
on Sorrel Path. The lot is the only memo.
I have as yet, if that is correct. All
else on the record -- name, age &c, &c --
stands as blank.

Mrs Catherine B. Goodall of Boston,
a daughter, is a daughter.

Please do not delay this matter
longer --

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge
Sec.y

June 22 [186]5

C.H.P. Plympton Esq

Dear Sir,

I send you the
contract ready for your signature
& for paying over the amount
mentioned therein. Not thinking
you were absent from town, I added
the lot to the Committee list for the
semi-annual inspection today, for
which reason only I desire an
early payment.

In reply to your question, I
will say that the amount is intended
to cover the lot and "all" its appartenan-
ces. It is the appartenances -- such
as an expensive monument --which,
in the judgment of the Committee re-
quired rather more than you antic-
ipated.

Very truly yours

A.J. Coolidge

I wish it settled as early as 1^st July, if convenient.

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