THE WHITE HOUSE
                    WASHINGTON
 
                                     July 28, 1939.
 
MEMORANDUM FOR 
            HENRY T. HACKETT
 
     I do not object to this increase in assessment from 
$1,400 to $8,000, covering the new stone cottage on 
Dutchess Hill, but at the same time I think we should 
ask for a reduction of the assessment on the Dumphy farm, 
which was greatly increased during the period that 
Mrs. Backer owned it. Also, it should be noted that the 
easterly half of the Jones place was sold to Mrs. Backer 
and that that half included the old house and barn. 
My part of the Jones place consists only of about eighteen 
or twenty acres of very rough land!
 
     If you think well of this, will you let the Board of 
Assessors know on the second Tuesday of August?
 
                               F.D.R.