January 12, 1932.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Executive Mansion
Albany, N. Y.
 
Dear Governor:
 
              The tenant of the Tompkins house moved without 
bothering to say anything to me about it. However, he did 
actually pay $25. for December.
 
              I now have an application from John Waldron of 
Hyde Park. He says he has five children at home and that he 
works in the boiler house at Vassar Hospital. I telephoned 
the Chief Engineer of the Hospital and he informed me that 
Waldron was a good steady worker.
 
              Waldron told me this morning that Moses Smith 
had told him that the Sweeten girls have a right to use a 
room or rooms in the Tompkins house. If that is so I did not 
know anything about it.
 
              Will you please let me know if I shall rent 
the house to Waldron for $25. a month, and if the Sweeten 
women have a right from you or Mrs. Roosevelt to occupy any
part of the house. If they have, of course, such right must 
be excepted from any lease of the house, and in such case 
Waldron would like the right to collect some rent from them.
 
              I do not know how clean the Waldrons will keep 
the house but there seems some prospect of getting some rent 
from them.
 
              I went to the house yesterday to see if it was 
locked up and, in my opinion, the cellar doors and cover of 
the cistern are decayed, and if any tenant or his children
should be injured by reason of their condition, you would
be liable. Therefore, I advise you to obtain public
liability insurance on these premises.
 
                        With best wishes, I am,
                        John Hackett