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#312-L

April 25, 1891.

F. A. Whitwell, Esq.,
Boston.

Dear Sir: -

A brick wall about seventeen feet long across the back
of your lot, to be placed entirely on your own land, said wall to
be two feet wide and seven feet high, laid in Portland cement on a
broken stone foundation one foot deep also laid in Portland cement,
the whole to be covered with a cap stone of granite 1 foot thick
which is to be furnished by you, will cost including the necessary
excavation and repair to the sod and painting the fence one coat
when the wall is completed, two hundred and five dollars ($205.00).

The piers as proposed have not been included because they
will only add to the expense and will not add to the strength of
the wall.

Whatever plan may be adopted it will be difficult to keep
the cap stone in place on account of frost, but a cap stone as thin
as you propose will not remain in position but a short time and
will require constant repairs.

Respectfully yours,