Mount Auburn Cemetery

B R Curtis Esqr

Dear Sir,

I think no organization of the board of Trustees of Mt Auburn has been made this year. You will probably have a meeting during my absence of a few weeks & I beg leave to suggest for full consideration the question which has often been agitated, of granting permits to strangers to drive into the grounds. I have been opposed to it from the difficulty of discriminating its lessening the inducements to become Proprietors merely for the value of the privilege of introducing strangers. This last reason is becoming of less & less consequence to us. The other remains in all its force -- still, cases have happened when it has been mortifying that the accommodation could not have been granted. Gov Ellsworth & family is one of them. If the thing is done I suppose tickets should be granted only to persons living more than 15 or 20 miles from the Cemetery in the City -- for a single time & either for a single vehicle or for a single party. Probably it would be best that each Trustee should be supplied with them.