Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Tommy Y.C. Lee, March 15, 1918
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Title
Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Tommy Y.C. Lee, March 15, 1918
Subject
Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Tommy Y.C. Lee, March 15, 1918
Description
Typed letter sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Tommy Y.C. Lee about an account at Whitlock's Bookstore in New Haven. Learned Lee still has an unsettled account. Is disappoint Lee won't respond to letters or settle the account.
Transcription
My dear Tommy:
I am discouraged and a bit disgusted, I must confess, to learn from a letter just received this morning that your account at Whitlock’s, the New Haven Book Store, is still unsettled. Frank¬ly, I am losing all patience; for after doing my best for you as a good friend for a number of years, it now seems impossible even to get a courteous reply from you to necessary inquiries made to as¬certain what I may rightly expect from you in the way of cooperation in regard to your present obligations. I never dreamed that the time would come when I should have to write you in this vein; but that time apparently has come, and through no one’s fault but your own. If you would only do me the courtesy to answer my letters, I should feel that there was at least some chance of getting together. As it is, it looks as if the entire burden were to fall upon my shoulders unless something definite and drastic is done, and at once. Have you any suggestions to make?
Faithfully yours,
I am discouraged and a bit disgusted, I must confess, to learn from a letter just received this morning that your account at Whitlock’s, the New Haven Book Store, is still unsettled. Frank¬ly, I am losing all patience; for after doing my best for you as a good friend for a number of years, it now seems impossible even to get a courteous reply from you to necessary inquiries made to as¬certain what I may rightly expect from you in the way of cooperation in regard to your present obligations. I never dreamed that the time would come when I should have to write you in this vein; but that time apparently has come, and through no one’s fault but your own. If you would only do me the courtesy to answer my letters, I should feel that there was at least some chance of getting together. As it is, it looks as if the entire burden were to fall upon my shoulders unless something definite and drastic is done, and at once. Have you any suggestions to make?
Faithfully yours,
Creator
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
March 15, 1918
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence