HENRY T. HACKETT
                 ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
                         226 UNION STREET
                     POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK
   
                                        Oct. 26th, 1938.
 
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt 
The White House 
Washington, D.C.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
              I acknowledge receipt of your letter
containing check for $300. to pay the taxes, insurance premiums,
D'Luhosch, etc. and check for $200. to reimburse me for the
amount paid to Deane Lent.
 
              In compliance with your directions, I have
attached $4. more in stamps to the deeds from you to Mrs. Backer
and from Mrs. Backer to you and have had the County Clerk correct
the records in his office accordingly.
 
              I have already written Mrs. Backer in regard
to the taxes and am enclosing a copy of my letter to her. The only
unpaid taxes are the school taxes. Mrs. Backer paid the general
taxes on the Dumphy farm in January.
 
              With kindest regards, I am
 
                    Sincerely yours,
 
                    Henry T. Hackett