Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston Sept. 15. 1863

Col. W^m R. Lee

Dear Sir,

I have submitted to the Committee on Lots your request, to know you what sum this Corporation will assume the perpetual care of lot No. 1175 in the Cemetery belonging to Mrs. Sarah Skinner and have this reply. The Committee on Lots will recommend the Trustees to guarantee the perpetual care of this Lot after it has been put in repair satisfactory to the Superintendent, for $300.

The Superintendent in his report of the condition of the lot, after describing it in other particulars says: -“The lot is all moss! Requires grading, and fence wants some slight repairs, and also painting, with cost $25 to put it in good order.”

Your most respectfully Austin J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt. A. Cem.y

Boston Sept.^r17, 1863

Capt D. L. Winsor, Sup^t Dear Sir,

The price proposed by the Com^ee on Lots for Perpetual care of lot no. 1676 on Cypress Av. owned by [devisees?] of late Sarah Baxter, of Newton, viz $400, having been accepted by the Sec^y and trustee, he, wishes to pay over not only that but the same necessary for present repair, & for the care of lot, as ordered, this year, in one sum; and it has been agreed with him that the lot shall be put into the condition, immediately, which you think proper, for its acceptance, and the amount be made [up?] and sent to Mr. H. C. Stephens for payment.

You said in the report of condition, under quest 7^th “nothing except ‘tis set in brimstone, which eventually destroys the stone.”

You are authorized to put it in the requisite condition, and add to that charge the care for present year. The parties are very anxious to have this done at once.

Make bill to “Estate of Daniel Baxter, deceased.”

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

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33 School St. Boston Octo. 12, 1863 J. B. Thayer Esq^r

Dear Sir,

Mr Stephens has just called upon me and desired me to send you the amount required in figures, for the perpetual care of the lot of Sarah Baxter, dec^d in Mt Auburn, for repairs, care of lot for 1863, and drawing & recording papers & services, - and he assents to the amount named by me - viz - $440.75

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Secretary

33 School St. Boston Oct. 12, 1863

W^m W. Goodwin Esq

Dear Sir,

Enclosed you find the contract for the perpetual repair of the Warren lot 1030 - which has been duly executed & recorded.

At your convenience, please enclose to $2. for drawing papers, getting executed & making record.

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Secretary Mt. A

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Jany. 20^th 4

Mr. Safford,

Dear Sir, your note of yesterday has come to hand: & I send the blanks requested. The order for "Removal to the Cemetery" is of no consequence, as it is difficult to keep the distinction, so as to have all orders for rein-- terment made outlaw, and I shall not print any more I send you is what remains of them.

The correction of lots 883 & 885 on the plan shall be attended to.—

I would like to have you [race?] over your entry books and see if your figures for the year agree with mine.

Whole no. internments 698, of which 116 are reinterments. (I generally consider the int. of soldiers brought home within a month or so, a 1^{st int.}) No. depos. in R. Tomb 53: no. in Pub. Lots 67.

Truly yours, A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Jany. 20. 4

H. C. Stephens Esq Dear Sir,

The Corporation is ready to receive the $400 stipulated for the perpetual care of lot 1673 (Sarah Baxter's) in Mt Auburn: and I suppose from what you said two months or so ago, you are ready to pay it.

I send you our form of donation in trust ready for execution. When you have paid over the amount to Mr Bond, Treas^r at 167 Congress St., return the document with your signature &c for completion & record.

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Secy

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Trustees ~ Adj^d Meeting Jany. 30, 1865.

Mr Austin for the Committee on Lots also submitted a report as follows: _

Report of Com. on Lots on Lots recently accepted for Perpetual Repair _

"The Committee on Lots Report, That they have contracted for the Perpetual repair of Lots not heretofore reported as follows: _

Lot No. 1030	_ of the late Pelham W. Warren for	three hundred dollars _	300.
1790	_ Ann L. Hatfield _	three hundred dollars	300.
801	_ Susan L. Willard _	three hundred & fifty dollars	350.
126	_ late Sophia Mumford _	three hundred dollars	300.
1676	_ late Sarah Baxter _	four hundred dollars	400.
587	First Univeralist Soc'y Boston _	one hundred & sixty dollars	160.
2820	_ Deborah C. Powars _	two hundred dollars	200.
1250	late Isaac Parker	}
1315	Mary I. Parker^said Parker Exor	} One thousand dollars	1000.
1333	Franny Cushing Parker	}
3324	Wm C. Sears, Exor of Sarah Spring	six hundred & fifty dollars	650.

And they submit the same for concurrence of this Board,

___	Edward Austin	} Committee on
___	Otis Norcross	} Lots _

Boston, Dec. 31, 1864.

Voted that this Board concur in the foregoing contracts.

seen it in so shabby a condition as I found it this afternoon_ This too, after a complaint of the condition in which I found it in the early summer_

Wishing to compare this treatment, with the Corporation's care, of my aunt's_ ( Miss Baxter_ ) lot in the same Avenue_ I found that in good condition, and well cared for_

I would like to know,

definitely - that if in order to have the lot properly cared for, it is [underlined] necessary that it should be taken out of the care of the Corporation, and given to some other person --

M.S. Shattuck