March 15, 1938
Dear Henry:-
        
                  Only   you  and I ever knew the location
of my Father's wood lot in the town of Pleasant Valley- and
I have forgotten! Every year I pay $9.00 or
S10.00 in taxes -- and I do not even know what the      
acreage is, though I have a vague idea it 1s somewhere
between fifteen and thirty acres.
 
                   What I am wondering is how close  this
wood lotis to the line of the Eastern State Parkway. If it
is fairly close to the Parkway, it is worth holding   on 
to  the wood  lot because the grading for that stretch of
the Parkway from Hopewell Junction to Washington Hollow
ought to be started within a couple of years. On the other
hand, if the wood lot is quite far from the Parkway, I
think it might pay to try to find a purchaser. What do you
think?
 
                    Are you having any luck with the heirs
of the other wood lot east of the Newbold woods?
                                     
                              As ever yours,
 
Henry T. Hackett, Esq.,
226 Union Street,
Poughkeepsie,
New York.