CB04_0398

398

Dec 4 [187]4

Mrs E. A. Lewis

Dear Madam

I have your note of yesterday and I
find the bill of ^$15.70 which you paid in 1873, was for
care ^$2.00, plants ^$1.00 - cutting [?er] ^$6.00 _ and for setting the
stone ^$6.00.

From the papers left by my predecessor & from your
note to him, I did not judge any leading was intended,
however, if you understood that the lot was to be fixed
up as at first I will have it [?] [?ed], without
expense to you, as I do not want any proprietor to
pay a bill without receiving what is a fair return. I
shall thus be giving you for ^$6.20 what is worth ^$15.00

The clamping was a suggestion of my men, the lot
like many others here never having been clamped.

Hoping this may be satisfactory

I am yrs very truly

J. W. Lovering

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