HENRY  T. HACKETT
                   ATTORNEY  & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
                           226 UNION STREET
                POUGHKEEPSIE,           NEW YORK
 
                                      Feb. 12th, 1936.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washing ton, D.C.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
                  Schaffer has been in again to see me about
Selling his wood lot and the fee of the road running easterly
to Cream Street and still insists on $1,000. If you really
want the property I think it would be cheaper to buy the whole
farm, for which he asks $10,000. but would probably take less.
 
                 I understand from the local papers that the
city of Poughkeepsie is about to install an incinerator. When
this is done there will be no more hog raising on the city
garbage and the atmosphere in the vicinity of your Violet Avenue
properties will be much better.
 
                The Rogers executors would like to receive a
contribution from you for the payment of the taxes on the
52.374 acres purchased by you from them.
Enclosed here with is a computation of the same, which shows
a tax of 69.52 due from you to them. If this is satisfactory
to you, I will pay it as we still have money enough to cover
it.
 
                 Hoping to see you when you are here, I am
 
 
                                    Sincerely yours,
                                   [Henry T.Hackett]