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Nov. 17, 1888.

Messrs Evans & Tombs.
Boston.

Dear Sirs: -

As a difficulty which can easily be obviated has been
found in setting some of the headstones you have been sending here,
I desire to call your attention to it believing you will consider
it for your interest to remedy it in future, and thereby give those
who employ you a more substantial piece of work with probably no
increase of expense.

The stones in question have come with a rough socket base
as indicated in the sketch, the tablet being cut so that this base
cannot be set more than 3 or 4 inches below sod. The result is a
yellow margin of dead sod around the stone from the want of soil.
These bases ought to be at least one foot under the sod, and it
would be very much better and probably might curtail the expense
for foundation by reducing its size, if the base stone was dis-
pensed with altogether, and the tablet made long enough and built
into the foundation, which should be covered by at least twelve
inches of soil.

As the Corporation has in many cases ageed to keep the
grass in perpetual care, it is necessary that the stones be so
designed that this is possible.

Respectfully yours, J. W. Lovering Supt.