HENRY T. HACKETT
               ATTORNEY &  COUNSELLOR  AT  LAW
                       226 UNION STREET
                   POUGHKEEPSIE,   NEW YORK
 
                                                            
                                   Nov. loth, 1937.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D. C.
 
Dear Franklin'
 
              I now have the deed to the Dumphy
and Hughson farms executed by all of the Newbold Trustees
ready to be recorded.
 
              I acknowledge receipt of yours of the 9th
instant containing check to my order as attorney for
$1,960.50 to purchase land from Wright. I shall proceed
as rapidly as possible with this matter. Most of the land
owned by Devens is high enough so that any ordinary rise of
water will not affect it. Later it may be necessary to
exchange land with him.
 
              Englehardt told Mr. Welch of the Trust
Company yesterday that he was leaving Gus' place Friday,
Novamber 12th, for Purdy, Westchester County. Welch is going
to have the furniture  moved to Poughkeepsie and stored so that
it will not be stolen during the winter. I will arrange for
an extension  of Rohan's lease for another year.
 
               Hicks has a lease covering the Dumphy farm
until April 30th, 1938 so that I do not think that Moses
should disturb him until his lease expires unless he consents.
 
                          I also acknowledge receipt of
yours of the 6th instant containing your check to my order as
attorney for $12,000. toward the purchase of the Dumphy and
Hnghson farms. I have just written to Mrs. Backer to ascertain 
the name or names in which she desires to take title to that
part of the Dumphy farm lying east of Violet Avenue. There 
are two questions to be settled in reference to the land to be
conveyed to Mrs. Backer. First, the width of the road along 
the  north  line, and second, whether or not you intend to
reserve the right to back up and flood any of the land to be 
conveyed to her, and if so, to what depth.
 
                         The present road is about twelve
feet wide. The gateway on Violet kvenue is twelve feet in width
from the south face of the stone wall on the north line to the
north face of the stone wall running along the road. The bridge
is twelve feet three inches in width over all and the roadway 
eleven feet four inches between the rails fastened on each side.
The north face of the stone wall at the gateway leading into
the land you already own