3 Mount Auburn Cemetery Copying Books and Ledgers

973 [Note: pg 974 missing. On pg. 973, written by hand diagonally across the page top and bottom: VOID SEE PAGE 977]

[Text of letter follows:]

#2216-L.

Nov. 19th. 1889.

P.C. Welch, Esq., #5 Tremont St., Room #51, Boston.

Dear Sir: -

The estimate of one thousand dollars for the perpetual care of lot #2216 includes the care and repairs of the sodding upon all the land inside the fence and upon such pieces outside as are owned by the Sohier family in connection with the lot, the strip on the top of the bank wall being one; also the care of the myrtle and peony, the covering with wooden box of the cross, the washing and pointing, but not the renewal of the monument and headstones, the repairing of the bank wall at rear, and the paintting of the iron fence while it lasts.

The covering of the myrtle is never specified in the acontracts, but it is protected in whatever seems to be a suitable way.

The peony was removed from the lot to greenhouse during certain changes and repairs, and will be set out again, but it is not understood that it requires to be taken up and stored at the greenhouse each Winter and such care is not included.

The bill of thirty six dollars ($36.00) was for the foundation of the monument, and that of four dollars and ninety cents ($4.90) for the foundation and setting of a small marker.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

63

May 13 [18]91

r. Thomas Phelps 5000^{Gr. 148}

Building foundation & setting stone ^$6.00

PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

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