Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze to Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan, September 8, 1926
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Title
Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze to Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan, September 8, 1926
Subject
Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze to Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan, September 8, 1926
Description
Typed letter to Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan, sent from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze. Acknowledged receipt of $4,000 check. Will send half to Dr. Stearns. Will keep the other half to cover expenses for the Tsai children before heading to Andover. Plans to send the remainder during Christmas. Believes it will be easier to have one person in charge of finances. Explains the Legation will watch over the children while Sze is in Europe.
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September 8th, 1926
Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan,
Waichiaopu,
Peking, China
Dear Admiral Tsai:
Your letter of August 11 is received enclosing a draft for $4,000. As I cabled you today your two children have arrived at Seattle. The Consul there has been instructed to extend to them every facility in addition to the customs and immigration courtesies I have asked of the State Department. Unfortunately I shall have already left for Europe by the time when they reach Washington but the Legation will take care of them here until they go to Dr. Stearns. My family is still away for the summer so the living part of the Legation is only partially open. Under the circumstance , I should think it would be more comfortable to stay in some boarding house near the Legation.
I am sending a check for 2,000 (half of your remittance)to Dr. Stearns at once and keeping the remaining $2,000 here part of which to be used for payment of incidental expenses they may be incurred before they leave for Mass. I propose to turn the balance over to Dr. Stearns about Christmas times. It would greatly simplify matters to have one person- that is, Dr. Stearns - to have charge of all the accounts. In fact, Dr. Stearns has more experience in deciding allowances, etc. for Chinese students here.
Yours sincerely.
Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan,
Waichiaopu,
Peking, China
Dear Admiral Tsai:
Your letter of August 11 is received enclosing a draft for $4,000. As I cabled you today your two children have arrived at Seattle. The Consul there has been instructed to extend to them every facility in addition to the customs and immigration courtesies I have asked of the State Department. Unfortunately I shall have already left for Europe by the time when they reach Washington but the Legation will take care of them here until they go to Dr. Stearns. My family is still away for the summer so the living part of the Legation is only partially open. Under the circumstance , I should think it would be more comfortable to stay in some boarding house near the Legation.
I am sending a check for 2,000 (half of your remittance)to Dr. Stearns at once and keeping the remaining $2,000 here part of which to be used for payment of incidental expenses they may be incurred before they leave for Mass. I propose to turn the balance over to Dr. Stearns about Christmas times. It would greatly simplify matters to have one person- that is, Dr. Stearns - to have charge of all the accounts. In fact, Dr. Stearns has more experience in deciding allowances, etc. for Chinese students here.
Yours sincerely.
Creator
Sao-Ke Alfred Sze
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 8, 1926
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Manuscripts. Correspondence.