HENRY T. HACKETT
               ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
                      226 UNION STREET
                   POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK
 
                                      Dec. 6th, 1938.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
     Replying to a letter just received from Miss LeHand, 
in reference to the leases I sent you on Nov. 4th with
Christian Bie and Arnold Berge, I have had them rewritten
and am enclosing them herewith.
 
     Christian Bie has paid the November and December rent
I have not received anything from Arnold Berge.
 
     Feller is drilling a well alongside the Tompkins house.
I think he has been delayed considerably by the rain and
snow.
 
     We have acquired another one-sixth of the title to the
Lent wood lot by a deed from John DeWitt Lent and wife of 
Peru, Ill. We now have two-sixths, or one-third, of the
title. I have had Hatfield write to Theodore DeWitt Lent,
a son of Theodore DeWitt Lent, deceased, Highland Park,
Ill., toascertain if he is the only heir of his father.
 
     Will you kindly send me $200. to reimburse me for that
amount which I paid to John DeWitt Lent.
 
     With kindest regards, I am
 
                           Sincerely yours,
                           Henry T. Hackett