Mount Auburn Cemetery

155

#3166-S.

June 5, 1891

J. V. Kettelll, Esq., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

I have examined the Amee lot and find several graves sunken and I am not sure which it is inteded to fill.

The cost of filling up any one grave and sodding will be two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50). The whole of the rear half of the lot sunken and the rough part of the granite exposed. If only the real half inside the curbing is raised, enriched and sown with grass seed the expense will be fifteen dollars ($15.00) The whole of the lot inside the granite can be regraded and enriched and sown with grass seed for thirty dollars ($30.00).

Respectfully yours,

#3856-S

June 6, 1891

Mr. A. B. Allison, Esq., Newton, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

The cost of removing all the myrtle from your lot and sodding over the graves will be three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50).

Respectfully yours

J. W. Lovering Sup't.

157

#262-S.

June 6, 1891

Mrs. J. P. Forsyth, #[?154] Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Dear Madam: -

The cost of filling and resodding the sunken places in the Carter lot will be seven dollars ($7.00). I would suggest that the cleaning of the stones be delayed until the oak stains are passed.

Respectfully yours,

[J. W. Lovering] Sup't.

#2008-S

June 6, 1891

Rev. Lucius R. Page, D. D. Cambridge port, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

A note was added to the card ordering care of your lot this year, asking for better care than heretofore. I have seen the lot from time to time this Spring and think that with the shade as now near the lot grass will not do well.

Respectfully yours,

[J. W. Lovering] Sup't.

158

#3804-S.

June 6, 1891

Wm. D. Whitingney, Esq. #26 Broadway, New York.

Dear Sir: -

The cost of removing all themyrtle from the graves in your lot and sodding them over will be six dollars ($6.00).

The cost of removing the entrance back to place and releading the jointsg will be ten dollars ($10.00).

Respectfully yours [J. W. Lovering, Sup't.]

#2381-S

June 5, 1891

R. R. Demon, Esq., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

The cost of repairing one myrtle grave in your lot will be twelve dollars ($12.00).

Respectfully yours,

[J. W. Lovering] Sup't.

159

#4888 2883-S.

June 6th. 1891.

Mrs. Joseph Walker,

Newtonville, Mass.

Dear Madam: -

The cost of sodding around the myrtle graves in your lot will be four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50).

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

#3950-L.

June 5th. 1891

Mrs. F.W. Paine,

#502 Beacon St., Boston.

Dear Madam: -

A large deep red rhododendron will cost from ten to fifteen dollars according to size. It cannot be set out until the flowering is done, but it would be well to give your order at once while in flower.

Respectfully yours

160

-S.

June 8th. 1891.

Messrs. John Mc.Namee & Sons,

Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sirs: -

Please cut mmbers on the right hand front corner posts of the following lots, #617, 1513, 1746, 295, 1407, 2425, 1528, 639, 389, 443, 1531, 1011, 798, 2614, 1364, 954, 552, 135, 1077, 205, 311, 347, 2351, 538, 2013, 1458, 5899, 5900, 5901, 5902, 5903, 5904, 5905, 5906, 5907, 5908, 5909, 1973.

Respectfully yours

Sup't.

#4803-S.

June 6th. 1891.

Howard Coon, Esq.,

Ware St., Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

The cost of running the lower joint in your monument with molten lead will be two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50).

Respectfully yours,

JW Lovering Sup't. [?]

161

June 8 [189]1

[Samuel?] Russell Exr.

Dear Sir;

Your order for lot 3592 (Clark) received and has had attention. On referring to the former order find that five dollars worth of plants have been furnished instead of two dozen at three dollars as given on circular sent, which is in the usual amount on a medium size lot. Should you wish to change your order please advise and oblige

Yours Resp'y

#2559-L.

June 8th. 1891.

Mrs. Jennie L. Locke,

#15 Grandview Ave., Somerville, Mass.

Dear Madam: -

The price of a myrtle grave is now twelve dollars ($12.00) and they are so liable to be damaged by the Winter that they are not guaranteed through the Winter.

Respectfully yours,

JW. Lovering Sup't.

162

#2767 to 2771-S.

June 9th. 1891.

A.P. Vinal, Esq.,

#36 Walnut St., Somerville, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

Your card is received and will have attention. Will you please let me know with whom the contract is to be made as there are several owners.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

#3890-S.

June 9th. 1891.

E.B. Chamberlin, Esq.,

#28 Chestnut St., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

The repairs to the myrtle on four graves in your lot will cost twenty seven dollars ($27.00).

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

163

#4975-L.

June 9th. 1891.

Charles D. Sias, Esq.,

Beacon St., Brookline, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

Lot #4975 measures 15ft. front by 20ft. deep and contains 300 sq. feet

The price of the lot is eight hundred and fifty dollars ($850.00) which includes the perpetual care of the grass.

No fence, enclosure or boundary marks other than the posts now there can be placed on the lot, but the height of headstones is not limited as it is on some lots.

Respectfully yours,

#1923-L. 1932

June 9th. 1891.

Henry P. Kendall, Esq.,

Dudley St., Brookline, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

The perpetual care without plants of lot #192332 either at the present grade, raised to the top of the present posts, will cost three hundred dollars ($300.00) and the change of grade and resodding will cost as already stated to you forty eight dollars ($48.00) in addition.

Respectfully yours,

164

June 10 [18]91

iss. J.D. Young 1229^Fininley

Clean 2 stones & remove 2 footstones 1 75

BfD.

June 11 [189]1

J.R. Kendall Esq.

Dear Sir;

Yours received in regard to lot 193. We do not do anything in the way of lettering; think it should be done before cleaning the stones, therefore will defer the cleaning, until informed by you that the other work is finished

Yours Resp'y.

J.W. Lovering Sup't. per F.A.B.

165

#2381-L.

June 10th. 1891

R.E. Demmon, Esq.,

Boston.

Dear Sir: -

Your favor of June 9th. is received. If you wish to retain the myrtle, I see no other way than to replant it, At best it is most uncertain, and on your lot the two trees add to the difficulty It appears from the books to be four years since you paid for any repairs. The experience here is that it is a continued source of expense, and that even with considerable care the results are often unsatisfactory, so that I never advise planting myrtle, although when it is ordered, it is cared for as well as possible.

The myrtle to which I suppose you refer as being in good order, on the lots opposite to yours, is under perpetual care, and has had considerable extra expenditure to bring it into the condition it is in.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.