Mount Auburn Cemetery

May 25 [186]5

Capt. D.L. Winsor,

Dear Sir,

Mr Henry G. Howard of San Francisco has arranged to sell Lot no 332 Alder Path with half of the "Howard & Merry tomb" to his uncle Geo. H. Howard of that place: and they propose to buy more land & make some improvements.

There is quite an amount of land on the rear -- perhaps 300 feet or more, of which they wish to know just how much, and the price.

There is also a piece of land between the South lot and Gardner Greenleaf's which they might desire to include. I wish therefore you would survey this including what is in the rear extending it back as far as you would the line in rear of tomb. On the plan there appears to be here about 300 feet. strong -- i.e. 10 wide, and 30 deep -- I have made a tracing from the sectional survey which I propose to send out to California to enable them to see the surroundings as far as to Poplar & Willow Avenues. If they can be induced to enlarge and fit up this, it will make quite an improvement.

Please then give me the width on the back of the two lots which you could add leaving a sufficient passageway to the lots on Willow. (By the plan there appears to be 10 ft or more), also the width & length of the strip next to Greenleaf. I should say 10 x 30.

State the price at which you would sell. --

Please reply in person on Saturday -- that will answer Mr Howard's purpose as he wishes to send to his brother by next steamer. --

Yours truly

A.J. Coolidge

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Nov. 24 [186]5

John T. Heard Esq

Dear Sir,

I will present your paper-extract from will of Mrs Gurney -- to the Trustees, if you desire, but it is nothing on which they can act.

As I suggested to you, the only feasible plan I can see (if it can be accomplished, of which I am by no means certain) is to have the parties release enough from the income to enable you to make a perpetual contract with our Corporation for the care of the lot & get the S.J. Court to decree accordingly.

Then the subject comes up in shape for action by our board. Now they have no power.

Very Resp.y yrs.

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Nov^r 24, [186]5

H.D. Bacon Esq San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your favor of Oct 20^th from St. Louis respecting the disposition which Mrs Sophia L.B. Jones is alleged to have made in her will of lot no. 1131 in Mt Auburn was duly rec^d.

In reply, I have to say that Mrs Jones was on the 5^th of March 1860, upon her own request designated to "represent" said lot under the Charter, an extract from which I send you. If Mr Thos. Jones devised this lot to his wife by will, it was hers to convey or devise again: but as she represents herself to be "administratrix" in the petition for the abovementioned designation, I can only infer that Mrs Jones left no will.

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16 Pemberton Square

Feby 21 [186]8

Dear Sir,

Yours of 30^th alt was rec^d this morning. I am happy to hear from an old acquaintance through the "Golden Gate."

I have enclosed four maps as you as you requested " by Steamer," each of which weighs 2 oz. subj. with weight of wrapper to 4 cts newspaper postage, & so prepaid.

These maps have, I believe, always gone safely so. The letter rate, if they had been sealed, would have amounted to 54 cts. If they do not come safely, inform me, and I will try it again. - Each^^map is enclosed in a long envelope with the lappet tucked in over the map, directed as requested.

Very Resp,y Your Ob^t Serv^t

A. J. Coolidge Sec.y

J.B. Bigelow Esq San Francisco, Cal.

16 Pemberton Square

Feby 22^d [186]8

Edw^d Austin Esq Chairman Com^ee on Lots

Dear Sir:

I find that the annual reports show the following account of the Story Statue Fund.

Decr	31,	1847		1102.67
"	"	1848	-	1144.67
"	"	1849	-	1144.67
"	"	1850	-
"	"	1851	-	1358.60
"	"	1852	-	1428.81
"	"	1853	-	5528.00
"	"	1854	-	6,326.68
Decr	31,	1855	unappropriated portions of fund	995.18
"	"	1856	-	984.18
"	"	1857	-	980.68
"	"	1858	-	990.97

(over)

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The secretary read the following letter addressed to Mr Bond, the Treasurer in behalf of this Corporation.

Lot 1806 Application of Ex^or for sale of lot in discharge of bequest to Corporation _

Washington City Oct 17 1859

Sir

The late Thomas O Larkin of Cal^a by his last will, left the sum of $400. _ to the directors or managers of Mt Auburn Cemetery the interest of which to be applied to the care and protection of two lots (1806 & 1807) in Spruce avenue, belonging to himself & Otis Wright of Neponset.

The remains of Mr Larkin are interred in Lone Mount Cemetery, San Francisco, and his family are permanently settled in Cal^a and the lot in Mt Auburn (No 1806, _ 360 ft) will never be of any use to them. It was their suggestion therefore, when I was in San Fr^o last spring, that the lot be sold and the proceeds devoted to the discharge of the bequest. It is occurred to me, however, that the corporation might be disposed to become the purchaser, or receive the lot in offset of the legacy. The two lots are enclosed in one common fence, and would require a division fence to separate them, but No 1806 is entirely unoccupied, and Mr Wright has no objection to a sale.

I address you in consequence of being one of the executors named in the will of Mr Larkin, & guardian of his minor children

Respfly [sic] E. L. Childs.

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Voted that ^$7000 be appropriated for that purpose.

Representatives, Lots Nos. Voted _ That Representatives be designated for Lots as follows: _

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66	√	Lillie C. Bowditch	Weymouth	Daughter
196	√	Faoline E. Stearns	Nashville, T	Grand-dau.
374	√	Abbie W. Hodges	Medford	Daughter
1075	√	Florence D. Eustis	Springfield	Daughter
1196	√	Olive L. Standish	Boston	Widow
1281	√	Robert W. Pratt	Boston	Son
1435	√	Samuel C. Bigelow	San Francisco	Son
1547	√	Samuel W. Clifford	Boston	Son
2157	√	Seth C. Chandler	Cambridge	Son
2167	√	Louis D. Starbird	Malden	Son
2209	√	Susan C. Warren	Boston	Widow.
2243	√	Daniel S. Pratt	Wellesley Hills	Son
2563	√	S. Otis Bartlett	Boston	Son
2694	√	Lydia A. Easter	Boston	Daughter
2988	√	Nellie E. Halford	Stoneham	Daughter
3030	√	Joseph T. Brown	Boston	Son
3384	√	E.A. Frances Fitch	Boston	Widow
4298	√	Alonzo Priest	Quincy	Son
4837	√	Catherine E. Draper	W. Somerville	Daughter
4918	√	Louisa D. Bullard	Cambridge	Daughter

Contracts Perpetual Care. The Committee on Lots recommended the following Contracts for perpetual care, all of which were approved by the Board: _