HENRY T. HACKETT             
               ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
                      226 UNION  STREET                     
          
                    POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK  
 
                                          0ct. 3rd, 1938.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Dutchess County, N.Y.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
             Yours of Sept. 30th containing deed executed by
you to Mrs. Backer and deed from Mrs. Backer to you and
copies of Lent letters received.
 
             I have sent the deed executed by you back to 
Washington to have a Clerk's certificate attached showing
the authority of the Notary Public to take the acknowledgement.
 
             Hatfield has just handed to me a deed executed
by Deane Lent and wife to him of their interest in the wood
lot, which I am having recorded.I have had Hatfield execute a
deed of this property to you, which I am holding in the safe
until we are ready to record it.
 
            D'Luhosch drove stakes in the ground marking
the line from the northeast corner of the Lent wood lot to the 
southeast corner of the Dumphy farm. I think more substantial
markers should be put in their places before they are
knocked out.
             Tomorrow, I will look up the question of the
acreage of the Jones property and also the whereabouts of the
other Lents and write you.
 
              With kindest regards, I am
 
                                  Sincerely yours,
 
                                   Henry T. Hackett