WEST ROXBURY PARK. 25 



Another Letter to the Parle Commissioners. 



Messrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, 

 William Gray, Jr., 

 Charles H. Dalton, 



Park Commissioners. 



Gentlemen: — In answer to 3^our communication 

 authorizing^ you to obtain bonds for such tracts of land 

 as you have selected for the Public Parks for the cit}^ 

 of Boston, I have only to say that while meeting with 

 hea\y losses by the great fire, together with large 

 shrinkages in the value of other properties, I have still 

 confidently felt that my real estate, now temporarily 

 depressed, will, by its certain advance in value b3^-and- 

 by, serve to restore in part these depreciations. 



The wealthy city of Boston, with its already large 

 and constantly increasing population and wealth, can 

 not expect me to sacrifice ni}^ valuable estate for park 

 purposes, nor shall I consent to be thus doomed, or in 

 other Avords robbed of my property. 



These lands of mine, embraced Avithin the area of the 

 lines on the park plan, are admitted by ever3^body who 

 knows, to be more charmingly diversified than any 

 others, and may well be considered the gems of all the 

 park grounds; in fact they form a lovely park in 

 miniature already within their own area, requiring but 

 little or no expenditure for embellishment. 



It cost me the dilisfent labor of a whole winter, be- 

 sides the expense in preparing the original plan of the 

 anticipated park, embracing 27 different lots, or 360.80 

 acres, not dreaming that more land than this would be 

 required, on account of the greater value. 



