ENCB04_0146
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Chas. Merriam Esq
Dear Sir
Your favor of the received.
There is but one price to our lots, and I should not
be willing to sell less than 400 sq feet in the locality
you speak of.
In regard to a lot in the rear, much would depend
on the shape of your lot; I do not expect any lots will
ever be sold in the rear of Mr Bartlett's, and if your
lot ran back as far as his, you would probably never
have a lot in the rear. If however as you propose to take
400 sq feet, you make a square lot of 20x20 (running back
toward the pond only one half the distance that Mr Bartletts
does, a lot might at some time be sold in the rear.
| The cost of grading & sodding & setting posts would be | $150.00 |
| 5 Brick Catacomb (possibly a little less) | 100.00 |
| A' McDonald will furnish 4 posts like Mr Bartlett's for | 48.00 |
| The lot shall not be sold until we have | $298.00 |
| waited long enough to hear from you |
J. W. Lovering
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Based on the description in this letter, the Bartlett Lot being described is lot 4231 on Halcyon Ave. near Halcyon Pond. The only Charles Merriam interred in Mount Auburn following this letter passed in 1906 and is interred in family lot 2922, adjacent to Story Chapel.
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