Mount Auburn Cemetery

Boston Nov^r 20. 1863 C.F. Skinner Esq^r

Dear Sir,

Yours of 13^th last was rec^d. The expense of setting four 8 inch posts on your lot will be ($8.00) eight dollars and whatever additional cost may be incurred by us for cutting No. 76 on a granite front the whole will not exceed $10: probably not more than $9.00.

You say you "should prefer to sell the lot." I think that can be effected, if you will say what you are willing to sell it for.

All we ask for land around that point is 50 cents per foot = $150 for a lot of 300 feet, which is the size of 76. - It is rather late this autumn, but still I might dispose of it before winter.

If you choose, you can [use?] either course - say what you will take for it now in cash - or at any time within 6 mos. as soon as a sale can be effected, giving me the privilege of grading it and putting it in a saleable condition. I should prefer the latter mode. You will be safe under it, as the land cannot run away - cannot deteriorate in value, and cannot be conveyed away from you.

I shall be pleased to hear from you on the subject.

In this way two things will be secured - you will dispose of what you do not wish for, and the appearance of the grounds will be improved.

Yours truly

A. J. Coolidge

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