STATE OF NEW YORK
                          EXECUTIVE CHAMBER
                               ALBANY
Franklin D.Roosevelt
     Governor
 
                                            August 25, 1931
 
Henry T. Hackett, Esq.,
226 Union Street,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
 
Dear Henry:
 
          I think the suggestion in regard to the Tompkins
farm is excellent. The house, now insured at $3500, can
well be increased to $5,000 because, as you know, I have
put it
into through [sic] repair, and have put in electric light
and running water and heat.
 
          Also it is correct to reduce barn No. 2 from $500
to $250.
 
          By the way, has the present tenant paid his rent? 
He has been there for nearly a year, and if he has not we
must do something definite about it.
 
                           Sincerely yours,
 
                               F. D. R.