Mount Auburn Cemetery

Subject: "into the hands of a private gardener"

Boston May 18/[18]79

2922 or 3366

My dear Sir=

My mother has been to Mt. Auburn this morning & reports the grass quite thin in some places in the lot & over the trellis covering the head stone marked "Nellie B. Merriam" was left the old dead portion of a vine giving it a most uncared for

so sacred to me has been neglected & makes me feel that I have been deh derilict in duty in having so much confidence in yr. men.

Very Truly yrs Chas. Merriam