HENRY T. HACKETT             
               ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
                      226 UNION  STREET                     
          
                    POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK  
                                       Sept. 21st, 1938.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D. C.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
               Your letter of Sept. 17th received. I have
had Mr. Luckey increase the total insurance on the cottage on 
Dutchess Hill to $15,000.
 
                I am enclosing herewith a copy of the last 
letter received by Hatfield from Deane Lent and also a copy
of Hatfield's reply. I am very anxious to get a deed to some
part of the wood lot.
     
           Enclosed herewith is a proposed deed from
you to Mrs. Backer of that part of the Jones property lying
east of a line drawn from the northeast corner of the Lent wood
lot to the northeast corner of the Hughson farm. It seems that
this corner is about three hundred feet further west than
where William Plog and I thought it was the day we measured
the north line of the Lent wood lot. Therefore, all of the
buildings on the Jones property are on the part you are going
to convey to Mrs.Backer.
 
               If the deed is satisfactory, please sign and
acknowledge it before a Notary Public and return it to me
and I will notify Mrs. Backer that I have it.
 
              Also enclosed herewith is a map of the survey
of this property showing the part you are to convey to Mrs.
Backer enclosed within the red lines. 
 
              I am also enclosing a proposed deed from Mrs.
Backer to you of the Dumphy farm for your examination,
which, if satisfactory, you may send to her direct to be executed
or return it to me, whichever you wish to do.
 
              With kindest regards, I am
 
                                Sincerely yours,
 
                                 Henry T. Hackett