Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H., February 20, 1923
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H., February 20, 1923
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to K.F. Tsai, The Stearns School, Mont Vernon, N.H., February 20, 1923
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February 20, 1923
Mr. K. F. Tsai,
The Stearns School,
Mt. Vernon, N. H.
My dear Tsai:
Thank you for your last letter. I understand clearly now why you needed the extra money so don't apologize. I am the one who ought to do that.
I have heard from Dr. Pratt, and evidently the question of your health lies pretty largely in your own hands. What you need to do is to quit worrying about yourself and just refuse to believe for one minute that you are not as strong and healthy as the next fellow. Unless you can get yourself into this frame of mind I am afraid that you are going to be bothered all your life, and increasingly so. Now is certainly the time to change your point of view, for it will be horded to do so as you get older.
Some golf stockings, which you evidently got at Macullar-Parker’s, came to me recently, but as my name was the only one that appeared on the bo, I hadn't the slightest idea to whom they belonged. In answer to a letter of inquiry of minfi, however, the firm has just written me that these goods were purchased by you and should have been sent to Mt. Vernon. I judge that you have been making some pretty extensive purchases there lately from what they tell me. Don't forgot that you are spending more money, pretty regularly, than any other Chinese boy who has been under my care for a number of years. I do wish you could learn to cut things down to within reasonable limits, though I want you to have, and I know your father does, all that is really essential. What I can't quite understand is just why your bills should be so much heavier than those of the other boys, who seem to have all that they require.
Faithfully yours,
Mr. K. F. Tsai,
The Stearns School,
Mt. Vernon, N. H.
My dear Tsai:
Thank you for your last letter. I understand clearly now why you needed the extra money so don't apologize. I am the one who ought to do that.
I have heard from Dr. Pratt, and evidently the question of your health lies pretty largely in your own hands. What you need to do is to quit worrying about yourself and just refuse to believe for one minute that you are not as strong and healthy as the next fellow. Unless you can get yourself into this frame of mind I am afraid that you are going to be bothered all your life, and increasingly so. Now is certainly the time to change your point of view, for it will be horded to do so as you get older.
Some golf stockings, which you evidently got at Macullar-Parker’s, came to me recently, but as my name was the only one that appeared on the bo, I hadn't the slightest idea to whom they belonged. In answer to a letter of inquiry of minfi, however, the firm has just written me that these goods were purchased by you and should have been sent to Mt. Vernon. I judge that you have been making some pretty extensive purchases there lately from what they tell me. Don't forgot that you are spending more money, pretty regularly, than any other Chinese boy who has been under my care for a number of years. I do wish you could learn to cut things down to within reasonable limits, though I want you to have, and I know your father does, all that is really essential. What I can't quite understand is just why your bills should be so much heavier than those of the other boys, who seem to have all that they require.
Faithfully yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
February 20, 1923
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence