amount. It was reported that Mrs. Roosevelt had made
application to the Federal Land Bank of Springfield for a
morgage loan of $37,000 to be applied against the purchase
price of the property.
 
II. Mrs. Roosevelt's letter of March 24, 1947 to the
    Executors.
 
    The letter of March 24, 1947 from Mrs. Roosevelt to the
Executors which reads as follows: 
 
    To the Executors
    Franklin D. Roosevelt Estate
    New York, N.Y.
 
    Gentlemen: 
 
    I find that due to the difficulties of obtaining materials,
    it is probably going to take us a longer time than we had
    anticipated to prepare the Smith farm for occupancy. 
 
    Since you have given us permission to harvest the fields
    along the Post Road prior to the final sale, I wonder if we
    might also have permission to leave the farmer and his
    family and all live stock over there until you sell, or we
    are able to move them.
 
    Of course, we realize if you sell, we will have to move
    them, but even then we may not be ready for them, but it
    would be very much better if we could at least keep them
    over there until August when I hope the work will be done. 
 
    We will let you know in a few days what the repairs to the
    buildings will be an will submit item by 
    item so as to get as much done prior to the sale to me as
    possible.
 
    In te event that you sell the property not as farm property,
    would you consider selling the buildings on the farm as
    scrap to us? We can salvage them and use them in our repair
    work.
 
    We will be prepared to go though with the sale whenwver the
    Surrogate gives his approval, but if it could be delayed
    until the repairs are done or at least authorized, it would
    be a help to me.
 
                                   Very sincerely yours,
                                   /S/ Eleanor Roosevelt
 
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