Mount Auburn Cemetery

187

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

206

Jany 17. [186]5

Messrs Shedd & Edson

Gentlemen,

Please send me tomorrow the inside measures to lots 3498 (Cutter) 3517 (Fray) 3518 & 3519 (Thompsons) on Laurel Av^e. I send the plans, on which I wish ^^you to mark the length of inside lines, & the middle ordinates, from which I can make deeds.

Send me also the same for lot 1463, on Thistle Path (Mrs Hemenway's) which contains 790 sq. ft.-

It is laid down on plan, but the exterior measures are given, so as to be no guide for me in describing.-

I shall have to ask you to send to Mt Auburn & survey some of the irregular lots:- [?]} [?]} each other}

Among these I wish

3495	rear of 179 Walnut Av.	contents	168f.
3516	rear of 179 Walnut Av.	contents	65f
3508	rear of 2204 Walnut Av.	contents	87f.
3505	Adams - Elm Av.	contents	203f
3511	Sturges - Anemone P.	contents	370f
3512	Hill - Walnut Av	contents	200f
3513	Timson - Walnut Av	contents	200f
3514	Elliott -Walnut Av	contents	300f
3515	Ames - Walnut Av	contents	300f
3484	Prescott Larch Av	contents	1846f
3499	Fines - Dianthus P.	contents	133f

Remember, I wish the inside measures.

There will doubtless be other irregular ones which I shall wish to [?]. Inform me where you will send out & I will [?] the rest ready.

Yours respy

A.J. Coolidge

208

Jany 18. 5 [1865]

Geo. W^m Bond Esq^r Treas^r &c

Dear Sir, I return deeds of lots

Numbered 3493 3494 3500 3501 3502 3503 3504 3509 3510 3520 3523 3528 3530

I have not yet responded to your orders for Lot 21 2582 3394 new deeds {3437 3442 3450} 3484 3495 3498 3499 3505 3508 3511 3512 3513 3514 3515 3516 3517 3518 3519 3526 3527

I have yet no orders for [Jus. Recd?] & al. {3419 3420 3421 3422 3423} 3496 3497 3521 3524 3529 3531 and all after 3531.

If you will complete your orders for what remains. I will endeavor to complete the deeds within a week so as to be in-- season for your [?].

I shall be able to furnish what I have on hand, as soon as I receive some items from the Surveyor & Sup^t— Please be correct in transcribing Capt. Winsor's sketches & figures.

Resp yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

215

Feby 10 5 [186]5

Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn

To A.J. Coolidge [Dr?]

For making deeds of the following numbered lots at 1.00 each, viz. 3415, 3427, 3428, 3429, ^³⁴³⁰ 3431, 3432, 3433, 3434, ^³⁴³⁵, 3438, 3439, 3440, 3441, 3443, 3446, 3447, 3448, 3449, 3451, 3452, 3453, 3454, 3362, 3394, 3414, 3424, 3425, 3436, 3437, 3442, 3450, 3455, 3456, 3457, 3458, 3459, 3460, 3461, 3462, 3463, 3464, 3465, 3466, 3467, 3468, 3469, 3470, 3471, 3472, 3473, 3474, 3475, 3476, 3477, 3478, 3479, 3480, 3481, 3482, 3483, 3485, 3486, 3487, 3488, 3489, 3490, 3491, 3492, 164, add.^m1869, [indecipherable] 1979, 3493, 3494, 3495, 3498, 3500, 3501, 3502, 3503,

3504, 3505, 21, add.m to 2834, 3507, 3509, 3510.	$88.00

viz. "the following [@?] $2 each -- 2852, 3484, 3506, 3508, 3511, 3512, 3513, 3516, 3517, 3518, 3519, 3520, 3521, 3522, 3523, 3524, 3535, 3526, 3527, 3528, 3530, 3531, 3532, 3533, 3534, 3535, 3536, 3537, 3538, 3539, 3540, 3541, 3542, 3543, 3544, 3545, 3546, 3547, 3548, 3549, 3550, 3551, 3552, 3426, 3444, 3445, 3496, 3497,

making 48 lots	96.00

viz. recording reconveyance of lots 21 & 164 --	2.--
viz. making a new deed of lots 3428, 3429, 3437, 3442 & 3450 @ $1 each	5.--

$197.--

94

April 15^th [187]6

[In pencil:] Not sent

Henry S. [Evers?] Esq

Dear Sir

I send you a plan of the Sturgis lot #3511 showing the amount of land owned & its position with reference to the adjoining lots, and on this plan I have sketched a plan of the catacombs & the vestibule, showing the amount of land available for the front & sides of tomb.

I enclose a sketch of a tomb containing 16 catacombs, to which can be added such a design for the front and entrance as suits you. The parts colored in red represent the brickwork and then in slate color, the slate shelves on which the caskets rest, and the divisions between the catacombs.

I think the divisions between the catacombs are best of slate and the catacomb doors of marble.

I think the entire cost should not exceed $4500 unless the granite front is more elaborate than the Moore tomb which you saw. The more difficult place to arrange the grade will be on the East side toward lot #2761, and on this side some granite work (dressed) may be made.

Respectfully J.W. Lovering

I [?] no [?] the lot can be transferred except by ordering the Probate Court.