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

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.--

420

16 Pemberton Square,

May 26, [186]8

T.A. Chapman Esq. Milwaukee Wis. --

Dear Sir,

Out Treas^r, Mr Bond, has sent me your note of May 13^th requesting me to reply to it:

I regret to perceive that you have got an erronous impression in the matter. The bill as I see, is $53.25 for the first grading and sodding the lot. Your lot (no 3530 Mound Avenue) was graded up with a line of lots of which Mr Collier's is first and Mr Clark's last -- in advance of sale. The Corporation only occasionally grades lot before sale, and invariably, when this is done, adds the price of grading to the piece of land. Your land (400 feet) as you find in your deed cost you $600. This was for land in its naked condition. You may have got the idea that the $600 covered the whole from the fact that it was graded when you first saw it. The reason we make the charge for the land and grading separate is that we divide proceeds of land with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and it has no interest in the work -- so we keep separate accounts, & the bills are rendered separately to the purchaser.

Every other gentleman near you has been charged this separate bill in the same way and has paid it. The fact, that if one