Mount Auburn Cemetery

"lily of the valley" planted - which she thinks will grow, as the sun falls there morn-- ings, but does not expect to have the grass kept green - perhaps would like a border. There are not more than four persons to be buried there - does not wish any fence or monument other than such headstones as may be needed for those who may be interred: wishes to reconvey the lot to the Corporation. With what she proposes, it cannot possibly cost the Corporation $5 per annum. The only question is, if we take it in the state in which it now is, what can be done to it annually. Will you sug-- gest the probable first outlay for what she wishes - viz. digging stump out, making border on path, and planting the lily of the valley.

If the $300 will be insufficient, she will probably let it remain accumulating until it amounts to enough, unless she should be able to add more to it. I told her that the trees would some time perhaps be taken down - then the lot ought to be put as a condition for green grass there - She prefers the trees there - selected the lot on account of them; but feels annoyed at its present forsaken appearance, and was led just now to giving the $300 partly because the lot looks so, and partly because the next lot Mrs. Fairchild's is left so neglected.

Please report on this Saturday if con-- venient.

And now descending the hill, view another which has been inquired about since I began to ask you to look at Mrs. Churchill's -- the

Murray lot no. 587. belong-- ing to the 1^st Universalist Soc.y - situ-- ated on Moss Path. But little has been done to it for some years, & if I remember, but little can be done to it. The Society is about dissolving and wishes to convey this lot to the Corpⁿ with a fund of about say $160 ($159 in March last) which has been accumulating for some time. It contains 136 square feet. This is somewhat different from a private lot. I suppose there may be nobody that feels enough interest to add to the fund if insufficient, but perhaps it is enough to put & keep it in repair.

Truly yours

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

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