Mount Auburn Cemetery

33 School St. Boston May 16/61 N. G. Carnes Esq.

Dear Sir,

Yours of Ap. 25^th, with Mount Auburn bills enclosed, was only rec^d. In behalf of the Committee that addressed you I will say that the legers do not show any other important bills, and unless you have since found others, you need not be at the trouble to examine. I return the bill of $144.50 which I find correct.

I have asked the Superintendant as to the bill of $14. He says it was intended for you, and that he confounded your name with another on our catalogue. I therefore make a copy with your name, and enclose, which I will receipt for you when you remit.

Very truly yours, A. J. Coolidge

Boston, May 16, 1861 33 School St

Mrs Ede Sanderson

Dear Madam,

Your request to know for what sum the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery would assume the perpetual care of your lot, No. 1833, on Acanthus Path, was duly laid before the Committee on Lots, who have charge of the subject, and they have directed me to inform you that the Corporation will contract with you for the perpetual repair of said lot for the sum of three hundred dollars.

At any time when you shall signify it, I shall be ready to prepare the necessary document for your signature.

Truly yours A. J. Coolidge Secretary

33 School Street, Boston, Dec^r 30, [186]3

Mr W^m H. Blood 77 Franklin St

Dear Sir,

I enclose you a note written to Mrs John Blood by myself & rec^d again by me from the dead letter office under date of Dec^r 18^th & since writing it & before its return from Washington, I have written her another addressed in the same way to her at Charlestown, to which I have rec^d no reply .- Ascertaining who was cutting a curb for the lot, I inquired of Mr Hutchinson and obtained your address.

Will you please get the deed from our Trea. Mr Bond (167 Congress St.) and confer with your mother - then with me? If the curb is being cut as Mr Hutchinson told me 16f x 17f x 18f x 18f the deed (which I returned to the Treas^r despairing of hearing from Mrs Blood, & which gives the dimensions of lot as 15 x 20 f) should be corrected.

Please see that the other letter is not sent for to the dead letter office.

Yours resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y Mt.

Boston, ----Dec^r 31, [186]3

Capt D.L. Winsor Sup^t

Dear Sir,

Please report upon the condition of the Cedar Hill Enclosure, belonging to W^m Appleton. I send a blank supposing you might not have the contents at hand.

Please not allude to Mrs Sam. Appleton's or Mrs Peabody's lot-, as they form no necessary part of the enclosure, and Mr A. will not think of providing for them.

The lots 3363, 3364, 3388, 3389 in the rear of Acanthus Path, which I understood you were posted, Curtis has not on the plan. He says he noticed them as being only staked.

Have you ever found my note of Christmas Day?

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

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Nov^r 29 [186]4

Capt. D.L. Winsor,

Dear Sir,

Mr W^m M. Lathrop called in this P.M. and says he thinks he gave you an order for both posting & grading lots 3363 & 3364, Acanthus P. rear of 1833 & 1856. He talked over the size of the posts, & thinks he signed his name to the order book. -- If he is in error, please inform me, and I will have him give the proper order. -- He would like to have the grading done this season, if not too late: at all events, set the posts.

As it will probably be a day or two before the surveyors get out to you, I think it will be well for you to set as many of the posts to the lots of delinquent proprietors as possible: -- and their survey would then be the more complete. I subjoin a list of ^^all the earlier lots contained on the list shown you, remaining without bounds. --

?	3027	Magnolia	630 f.	Hunt.
	3081	"
	3213	Willow	300	G. Tufts
	3215	Lawn	400	Potter
	3224	Rosebay	440	Livermore
{	3232	Lime	} 250	Walker
{	3233	"	} 250	Walker
(	3320	Rosebay	300	Holmes
(	3321	"	300	Holmes
{	3363	Acanthus - rear of	300	A. Rogers
{	3364	1833 or 1858?	300	W.M. Lathrop
	3366	Fountain	400	Merriam
	3394	Spruce	400	Blaisdell
2 front posts	3411	Sumac	300	Clark
	3413	Fountain	400	Hovey
	3417	Garden	300	Dickinson
	3453	Fountain	400	Rymes
	3476	Sycamore	300	Whitman
	3493	Rosebay	480	B.C. Clark
{	3496	Oxalis	200	Baldwin
{	3497	"	200	Phinney
	3511	Anemone	370	Sturgis
{	3514	Arethusa	300	Elliott
{	3515	"	300	Ames
	3520	Trefoil	300	Wilder
	3523	Mound	300	Chase
	3524	"	213	Hobbs
	3528	Acanthus	300	Abbott
	3530	Mound	400	Chapman
	3534	"	300	Clark
{	3536	Camellia	225	Hale
{	3537	"	225	Boynton
	3543	Saffron	300	Chase

Thirty two in number -- and less than I had supposed on so long a list.

Will you also, in compliance with the request of the Com^ee on Lots furnish me before next Monday, a list of all lots of which the bounds have been neg-- lected. The above will aid you somewhat, but I am not sure that it embraces all since 3000.

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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was purchased two years ago last November. --

Chas. Dana Gibson -- Lot 3629 -- Halcyon Av^e -- Ornamental Ground -- 80 feet. That everlasting triangle --purchased Dec^r 13, 1865 = 3 yrs. 3 mos. 6 ds. since. Do set three posts. There is an exact copy of the sketch you then reported. How near it is to the fact I cannot say. Mr Foss stake it, [diagram: measurements] if you will execute.

W^m Thomas -- 1520 -- Columbine -- Addition of 11 in x 20 = 18 feet reported May 16, 1868. Is this on the east or west side of lot? --

3125 --John P. Turpin's -- Acanthus P. -- Addition -- never paid for, but buried upon -- you reported [diagram: measurements] 33 ft -- He has always contended that he wished only enough to clear the grave properly -- I think abt 21 feet. He refuses to pay for 33 ft -- says he distinctly ordered only enough for the grave of Capt Rogers. If you can re-report it so as to suit him, I should like to end it.

This was reported Sept. 21, 1867 --

Under the rule, I do not think you should wait longer for Martin Bates heirs -- 3599 -- Moss Path -- reported Dec^r 30, 1865 -- and Nathan Tufts Jr. 3734 Rosebay Ave. -- reported Dec^r 22, 1866 -- but post them. --

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge

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Trustees. November 8^t, 1871.

are sufficient for the business of the Cemetery, and it is inexpedient to increase the same."

Voted, – that the Report be accepted.

Pecuniary condⁿ of Corporation, etc. Report of Com. on Finance

On motion of M^r Turner the Report of the Committee on Finance in reference to the pecuniary condition and prospects of the Corporation, submitted at the last, and postponed to the present session of the Board was taken up, and after consideration it was

Voted, – that the Report be accepted, and the recommendations thereof be adopted – [See record of Report at page 367.]

Taxation of certain personal property. Proposal to test validity of.

A communication from Geo. T. Bigelow and others, in behalf of certain Charitable, Benevolent & Literary Societies desirous of testing the validity of the assessment of taxes on stock in National Banks held by such Institutions, inviting the cooperation of this Corporation in their proceedings, having been submitted to the Board, it was

Voted, – that the subject be referred to the Committee on Finance, with full powers.

Increased exempⁿ from taxation of personal Estate of Corpⁿ. Legislation to be petitioned to allow.

On motion of M^r Choate it was

Voted, – that the President be authorized and requested to petition the Legislature of the Commonwealth at its next session that the amount of the Personal Estate of this corporation exempted from taxation may be increased from Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.)

The Secretary having stated that the Committee on Lots has recommended the Trustees to guaranty the perpetual repair of Lot N^o 1760 on Acanthus Path belonging to M^rs Thomas M. Cutter for Four hundred dollars; of Lot N^o