WEST ROXBURY PARK. 53 



East side Glenroad, 591,885 feet at 35 cts., |207,159.75 

 West " 900,625 " 25 '' 225,156.25 



1^'^io 1432,3167)0 



Including roads, trees, stone, etc. 16,000.00 



1418,316.00 



The following correspondence was suggested by my 

 desire to make a satisfactory settlement with the park 

 commissioners, by having a private interview, and an 

 opportunity for negotiation and exchange of views, 

 which, however, proved to be futile. 



Tremont House, f 

 Boston, Jan. 20, 1885. S 



Messrs. Charles II. Daltox, 

 Henry Lee, 



Park Commissioners : 



Gentlemen: — On the first day of February next I 

 shall be under obligations for a large amonnt of money, 

 and as the park commissioners owe me for the amonnt 

 of my bill rendered for lot No. 17, within the park area, 

 476,360 feet at 18 3-4 cents, or $89,317.50, I thought 

 it advisable to request you to pay this claim, and I trust 

 you will not disappoint me. 



I already begin to realize that all my material inter- 

 ests in these valuable real estates, my present and pros- 

 pective fortune, are now in your hands, subject to the 

 arbitrary poAver or otherwise of the park commissioners. 

 You can deprive me, as you have already done, by the 

 exercise of the right of eminent domain, of my sacred 

 rights in my own property, ignoring at will my wishes, 

 and thus confiscate my lands; or you can leave them 

 subject to my control as it may suit 3 our dictation or 



