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avenue, called Montglade, containing 1,492,510 square 

 feet, is not only lovely in its natural scenery and pictur- 

 esque beauty, but it contains a fine forest and inexhaust- 

 ible ledges that will some time prove to be a treasure. 

 If the city of Boston want these choice lands for a public 

 park, it ought to be willing to pay handsomely for them, 

 or else let them alone. Precious gems must command 

 corresponding prices. I ask no favors. The population 

 is now spreading out in a southerly direction, and these 

 attractive sites with all their facilities of access will soon 

 draw to them the growing population. These, gentle- 

 men, are my reasons for not bonding this elegant estate 

 to the city. 



Respectfully yours, 



Samuel E. Sawyer. 

 Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1876. 



On the 25th day of November, 1879, the writer, at 

 the earnest solicitation of an agent authorized by the 

 city government, consented, very much against his 

 wishes, to give a bond to expire on the next first day of 

 January, that he would sell the following described lot 

 of land called Newstead, on the eastern side of Walnut 

 avenue, for the sum of eighty thousand dollars. To 

 wit: Beginning on Walnut avenue at land of Eliza R. 

 Haughton, and running by her line to land foi-merly 

 belonging to Horace Binney Sargent, thence by said 

 Sarjrent's line to land of Jacob Fottler to Walnut 

 avenue, thence by Walnut avenue to the point of begin- 

 ning, containing 476,360 feet. 



Signed, Samuel E. Sawyer. 



Witness, Charles W. Cram. 



