1888-11-26 Letter: J. E. Neale to J.W. Lovering, "Justifiable Ivy Complaint," 2014.020.011-018

Subject: Justifiable complaint about ivy

Hotel Humboldt - Roxbury - Mass, Nov. 26 - '88.

Mr. J. W. Lovering Sup^t.

I rec^d a communication from you a few days since in regard to "the Ivy", placed on Lot 3225, the past summer.

Was very much surprised, when you quote the gardener, as having stated that, the plant is not at all hardy & cannot be made to live out of doors.

Said plant has lived out of doors for the last six or eight years, by being,

when the very severe weather came on, taken from the fence and leaves thrown over, and this plant from which the slip was taken grew on a wall & never protected in the winter.

I now feel that if the plant had been properly set out and cared for through the summer, it would now have been in better condition.

The loss of this same I most deeply regret, as associations, connected with it no monied value can replace

So it now is, I think the least that can be done, if it is dead in the spring, to allow the sod to be replaced.

Respectfully J.E. Neale