1879-06-02 Letter: C. W. Folsom to Mr. Lovering, "engineering scheme," 2014.020.003-008

19 Berkeley St. Cambridge, June 2 / [18]79

Dear Mr. Lovering,

Have you ever considered the case of ^{my aunt} Mrs. Worcester's lot, 582, Aster Path? I believe I wrote you about the shrubs there. One of the Kalmias, the one in the S.W. cor., has died, and Mrs. Worcester would like very much to have it replaced.

She would be perfectly willing to pay for it her-

self if necessary, but I presume the fund of that lot would warrant the expense; as it has always been on the lot from the beginning.

[Drawing of plot, showing its location between Sumac Path and Aster Path ]

A represents the place of the missing shrub.

I think the health of the missing shrub may have been injured somewhat by the wash of gravel from above.

Some time when I catch you at leisure (!) I am going to ask you to drive out there & see if any engineering scheme could be devised to better dispose of the water that

starts down Sumac Path.

There was a time when it was diverted down in a channel south of the Worcester Lot; but I presume that might, either now or in future, interfere with lots below.

(I believe Mrs. Worcester's brother-in-law is ^{or was} legal representative of the lot; but it is "re-

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conveyed to the Corpⁿ in trust", and she is the only person, I believe, who is to be buried there under the trust. So she is the only party who is really much interested.)

And her brothers-in-law have often offered to replace the shrubs; but theirs are wild Kalmias, which will soon die there.

Very truly yours,

C. W. Folsom.