THE WHITE HOUSE
                          WASHINGTON
 
                                    November 17, 1939
 
MEMORANDUM FOR 
           HENRY T. HACKETT
 
        I wired you yesterday about the well. If it is 
driven just west or northwest of the Tompkins house and 
lose to the house, it would be well above and out of the 
way of the cesspool on the other side of the old road.
 
         I really do not want or need Jacobs' farm - and,
incidentally, the price is still about twice too high.
 
                               F.D.R.