CB06_0533

Nov 19^th/ [188]3.

John R. Poor Esq

Dear Sir

In reply to your
favor of the 17^th/ inst I would say
that I have named as low a
sum for grading the lots (3119 &
4390 on Caltha Path) as the work
can be well done for, and that in
making my estimate, I have al-
lowed a much larger amount of
loam than you do which accounts
for a considerable difference. I found
too that the sods around the mon-
ument were so much damaged in
putting up the monument, that sev-
eral hundred square feet of new sod
would have to be supplied, to
take the place of the waste in cutting
and that which could not be [stripped?]

I should be glad to have
the lot placed under perpetual care
but I could not accept $400 with
the lot in its present condition.

It has always been customary
for proprietors to put their lots
in good order and to the grade
at which they were to be left,
at their own expense in addition
to the amount named for the
perpetual care, and every purchaser
of a lot receives a separate bill
for the grading & sodding &c of his
lot at the time of payment for
the lot.

Yrs truly
J.W. Lovering
Supt.

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