February 24th, 1931
 
Dear Governor:
 
     I acknowledge receipts of your recent letter enclosing 
check for $10.73 to balance the tax and rent account.
 
     Please accept my congratulations on your letter to 
Lazansky. The wording of it delighted me very much indeed.
 
     One might well ask if Lazansky is so judicially high 
minded that he cannot even suspect that a brother member of 
the Judiciary might digress from the path, or if his 
exhaustive study in the legal field had induced him to 
favor the three eye witness law of Mahommed.
 
     With kindest remembrances, I am
 
              Very sincerely yours
             John Hackett
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt                          
Governor of New York State
Albany, N.Y.