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Guess I've explained things to you about those business lots & why we traded & all. The Fox Theatre interests are now considering a lease on the corner 65 feet & 35 feet of my 50 foot lot next to this corner. (corner lot is next mine) If they decide on it my worries are about over for there would be a sale for my 75 feet right away. or a lease for them which I should prefer.  And the real value is to come unless the capitalist system goes to smash & considering the suffering under it, it would be a blessing perhaps. On the other hand if the theatre project falls thru for any reason and this depression continues, I am done for I guess for I cannot carry the expenses much longer & exist at the same time. We cannot get the hang of hibernating I'm afraid I've had to throw in one thing after another to carry them. They are now appraised at 150 per front foot and when I got them in 1928 they had