Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 472)

472

Novem^r 24 [18]69

J. H. Shedd Esq.

Dear Sir,

I have for the last three or four
been trying to get a personal interview with you, as
I could in ten minutes get further some, than in
ten days by correspondence. But failing in that,
and feeling that after all, you may view the matter
about which I now write very much in the same
way that I do, I commit it to paper.

Our corporation has for years been at arms
length (or rather I should say practically beyond reach)
in access to the note books containing the original and
additional surveys of land & lots in the Cemetery.

Not that you have not given me all facilities
for ascertaining any given point, for I confess
we ought to have possession of all matter
that can be of value in ascertaining or correcting
or confirming any surveys or plans. A Cor-
portion as well off as Mt Auburn Cemetery,
and which should be able to refer back to its
records of surveys as well as transactions
of its Trustees for coming generations—is,
I think, not sufficiently mindful of its
possible future wants, in allowing