September 30, 1938.
 
Dear Henry:-
 
            Thank you for the enclosed letters. I do hope 
we can get Deane Lent's interest in the Lent woodlot. I am 
returning the letters herewith.
 
            The deeds from me to Mrs. Backer and from her 
to me are entirely satisfactory and I am sending them both 
back to you -- mine duly signed -- and I think it is better 
that you should send Mrs. Backer's deed to her to sign.
Incidentally, I sincerely hope you are sending her a bill
for legal services. You have not nearly enough Scotch and
dutch blood in your veins -- let alone Hebrew!
 
            I hope that Mr. O'Luhosch put in a line of
stakes on the new boundary between Mrs. Backer and me so
that I can run a wire fence.
 
            I note that the surveyor figures twenty-seven
acres in the land deeded by me to Mrs. Backer. Would you ask
him to give us the acreage in the remaining part of the
Jones farm which I still retain? It ought to be in five acres,
I think, though it may be a little less.
 
                      Always sincerely,
 
 
Henry T. Hackett, Esq.,
226 Union Street,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
 
(Enclosures)