Last week we shared a solicitation letter from the Committee of Beacon Street Residents from 1910, looking for funds to plant trees on Beacon Street between Arlington Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Here is the follow up, the original residing at the Boston Athenaeum:
“The fund has now reached $6,257, of which $5,275 is paid in and $982 is promised. We must have $8,500 before work can be started. Part of the promised money is conditional on the work being done this summer. Therefore the deficit of $2,243 must be wiped out during this month or the plan given up. Will you not help to complete the fund?”
The letter is signed by the Committee of Beacon Street Residents, the Committee of Metropolitan Improvement League, and the Secretary of the Massachusetts Forestry Association. Fundraising then, as now, is always difficult. One wonders whether someone made a $2 pledge? Every $2 helps.
