Franklin D. Roosevelt
                          Vice President
             FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COmPANY OF MARYLAND
                55 Liberty Street    New York City
 
                                     December 30, 1926.
 
Hon. John M. Hackett,
226 Union Street,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
 
Dear John:
 
         Many thanks for your letter of the 29th. I will
certainly do my best to try to impress the fact on Appleton
that the heirs have no claim on the school house lot.
 
         I will drop a line to the Governor about Sanford
Church. I have already told him that if the appointment was
to be kept more in the eastern part of the State, I would
favor Judge Smith of Sullivan County. Either of them would
make excellent selections for the court.
 
                       Always sincerely yours,
 
                          Franklin D Roosevelt