Your telegramEditorial Note: This telegram is not extant. recd -- and Mr. Garland is at work this A.M. putting in the foundation. I enclose a diagram of it, as it will be. You will notice we have changed a little from what you and I talked, for this reason -- still the change is not enough so but what you can fit the lot up nearly square -- and still have one half to sell, -- In the first place we could not have your monumentEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy ordered a monument to her parents, Mark Baker and Abigail Baker, and to her husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, to be erected over their graves in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire. exactly in a line with AlbertsEditorial Note: Albert’s. Albert Baker was Mary Baker Eddy's brother. He is buried in the Baker family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire., without coming too near Mr. Eddy's grave, and would not have left room for yours on the same sideEditorial Note: Here Peabody is assuming that Mary Baker Eddy will be eventually be buried beside her husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy. In August 1908, she requested that “a beautiful burying lot for one” be purchased in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (See L06475.) Following her death on December 3, 1910, the purchase was made and she was interred at Mount Auburn., again having the graves so near, as the boxesEditorial Note: coffins decay, would be likely to so disturb the foundation as to let the monument fall over. The fact that it is not in line with AlbertsEditorial Note: Albert Baker was Mary Baker Eddy's brother. He is buried in the Baker family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire. is of no account, as the spires dot the cemetery in all ways, that it will not be exactly square is not of so much importance as one would at first think, for as you make the walks around it you can have the wider on the longer sides, so as to bring it nearly square. We had to arrange so as to have some for both graves on one side of the monument in the other two lots. You know there is but one grave. You will notice that both of your brothersEditorial Note: Albert Baker and George Sullivan Baker are buried on the side or end of the lots, and perhaps you may sometime conclude to change Mr. Eddy's to the other end we have in arranging this way soon as you can do so. I think when you come to see it, you will be well satisfied with the arrangement - Will notify you when the monument comes so you can see that all is right.
| Accession: | 352.48.013 |
| Editorial Title: | Selwin B. Peabody to Mary Baker Eddy, December 9, 1882 |
| Author: | Selwin B. Peabody |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | December 9, 1882 |
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Your telegramEditorial Note: This telegram is not extant. recd -- and Mr. Garland is at work this A.M. putting in the foundation. I enclose a diagram of it, as it will be. You will notice we have changed a little from what you and I talked, for this reason -- still the change is not enough so but what you can fit the lot up nearly square -- and still have one half to sell, -- In the first place we could not have your monumentEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy ordered a monument to her parents, Mark Baker and Abigail Baker, and to her husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, to be erected over their graves in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire. exactly in a line with AlbertsEditorial Note: Albert’s. Albert Baker was Mary Baker Eddy's brother. He is buried in the Baker family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire., without coming too near Mr. Eddy's grave, and would not have left room for yours on the same sideEditorial Note: Here Peabody is assuming that Mary Baker Eddy will be eventually be buried beside her husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy. In August 1908, she requested that “a beautiful burying lot for one” be purchased in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (See L06475.) Following her death on December 3, 1910, the purchase was made and she was interred at Mount Auburn., again having the graves so near, as the boxesEditorial Note: coffins decay, would be likely to so disturb the foundation as to let the monument fall over. The fact that it is not in line with AlbertsEditorial Note: Albert Baker was Mary Baker Eddy's brother. He is buried in the Baker family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire. is of no account, as the spires dot the cemetery in all ways, that it will not be exactly square is not of so much importance as one would at first think, for as you make the walks around it you can have the wider on the longer sides, so as to bring it nearly square. We had to arrange so as to have some for both graves on one side of the monument in the other two lots. You know there is but one grave. You will notice that both of your brothersEditorial Note: Albert Baker and George Sullivan Baker are buried on the side or end of the lots, and perhaps you may sometime conclude to change Mr. Eddy's to the other end we have in arranging this way soon as you can do so. I think when you come to see it, you will be well satisfied with the arrangement - Will notify you when the monument comes so you can see that all is right.