Mount Auburn Cemetery

189

#2538-S

Jan. 17. 1889

F. E. Davidson, Esq.,

c/o Baring Bros & Co. London, England.

Dear Sir: -

Your note is received. The fence on the lot might be repaired but the expense would be considerable, and as it is rusty and unsightly the appearance of the lot and its surroundings would be improved, and the constant expense of painting avoided by removing it as very many of our proprietors have done with the fences on their lots. To do this, remove all the posts but four at the corners, recut those and cut the number of the lot on one of them, fill up and sod over the other post holes, raise a sunken grave and build a foundation under a headstone now out of plumb, with the care of the lot for the year 1889 would cost $10.00 and the old material of the fence.

The care of the lot without plants or topdressing would cost $2.00 a year, as you are abroad I would suggest that an order for the care of the lot until countermanded would keep the grass cut and the lot clean and tidy.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

trusting that you will not introduce new objects, except variations of clouds, and disperse the light & shadows in an artistic manner.

In the Rose window you will use (not the apostles heads) but instead of them the foliated compartments, or designs, marked 7 & 8 in your plan^ both alternately if you think it best.^ Next within these insert ^alternately the arabesques, or foliated panes which you have marked 1 and 2, (and not the mosaic marked 3.)

In the large roll which accompanies this, you will find paper patterns cut to the exact shape and size of the daylight pannels [sic], with a lithographic sketch numbered to correspond. You will also find the sketches of the great central design, already alluded to. We will pay you on delivery ^ to our agent in London or Liverpool ^ one hundred pounds sterling for the nave window, and one hundred & fifteen pounds s. for the rose window, if executed conformably to the foregoing instructions, and delivered to our agent in London or Liverpool as aforesaid on or before the first day of March next.

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Immediately after the receipt of this, please to inform me if you accept the commission, as above stated, -- also what is ^the thickness of your pannels ^ in the frame & material which holds them., ^ and what should be the exact shape & depth of the rebats into which the glazier is to set them. Before cutting out the paper patterns, half an inch was deducted from the space all round, which will be occupied by a wooden rebat to which the glass will be cemented. For further explanations ^ made by the mechanic, please read the patterns