HENRY T. HACKETT             
               ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
                      226 UNION  STREET                     
          
                    POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK  
                                           Oct. 5th, 1938.
 
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Dutchess County, N.Y.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
                D'Luhosch, the Civil Engineer,informed me
this morning that the acreage of the remainder of the Jones
property retained by you amounts to about twenty-two acres.
That the amount you are to convey to Mrs. Backer amounts to
about twenty-seven acres, which contains the Schaffer wood
lot.
 
                I have just received the deed from you to
Mrs. Backer back from Washington, where I sent it to have a
clerk's certificate attached.It is now ready for delivery to
her. I sent Mrs. Backer the deed from her to you yesterday
for execution. The Federal Laws require stamps to be
attached to deeds in the amount of fifty cents for each
$500. or fraction thereof. The deed from you to Mrs. Backer
dated Nov. 27, 1937 has a $9. stamp attached. Kindly let me
know the amount in stamps you want me to attach to each
deed.
 
                 Ms. Coapman, the school tax collector of 
district number 5, in which the Jones property and the Peter
C.Rohan farm are situated, has just received the tax book, but
as she is away today, I am unable to obtain the amount of the
taxes until tomorrow. All your other school taxes, including
those on the Pleasant Valley wood lot have been paid, 
amounting in all to $429.71. Mrs. Backer has sent me a notice 
of her school taxes amounting to $53.98 plus collector's fees
on that part of the Dumphy farm she is going to convey to you
and seems to be in doubt as to who is to pay it.
 
                The present balance on the special account is 
$167.45. There are now unpaid bills of Luckey for additional
 
premium on the Dutchess Hill property of       $ 114.99
D'Luhosch for surveying the Jones property        42.32
The school taxes on the Peter C. Rohan place,
the east end of the Dumphy farm and the
Briggs wood lot last year amounted to            246.44
and in addition to that there will be
taxes on the Jones property this year.
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                                               $ 403.75
Will you, therefore kindly send me about $300. to meet these
bills.
 
                  It appears that when Franklin T. Lent died
intestate at Sterling, Mass. on the 3rd day of December,
1919 to