Mount Auburn Cemetery

March 29 5 [1865]

Henry Gassett Esq

My dear Sir,

I have laid the subject of the perpetual care of your lot, No 2113, before the Com^ee on Lots, for a revision of their opinion, after obtaining from the Sup.^t a new report on the same -- and they have instructed me to inform you that they will contract for such perpetual preservation for six hundred dollars. --

My own opinion is that you will do well to accept these terms, as those as low as any I have ever known upon so large a lot, with such valuable appurtenances as yours. --

I mentioned that you were willing to pay $500, but they did not feel it safe to accept that sum. --

I am Very Resp.y yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

April 11^th5 [1865]

G.D. Norris Esq Milwaukee Wis.

Dear Sir,

A note from you which authorizes the interment of Henry Wilkins in your lot on the 30^th Jany. 1865, contains the information that your father S.H. Norris is not living. As our records do not show his interment in the lot, or in the Cemetery, I had no means of knowing the fact of his death. --

The accompanying blank contains information for the direction of heirs and devisees upon the decease of a proprietor. It is applicable in all cases, where the proprietor has left more than one heir at law, or where he has not devised his lot to one person, either directly or indirectly in his will. --

Will you please have it filled up and executed by the proper persons (if it applies to this lot) ^^{including yourself,} and return it to me.

Respectfully yours,

A.J. Coolidge, Secretary

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