Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, November 2, 1926
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Title
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, November 2, 1926
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, November 2, 1926
Transcription
My dear Mary:
As luck would have it, I made out for you last night the enclosed check for $300.00 and intended to send it in this morning’s mail. On arrival at the office, I find your letter which fits into the program nicely.
My idea is to allow you to test out yourself a bit in the handling of funds by having a bank account just as Charlie and Quincy have done since they went to college. As the heavy college bills for the first half year have already been paid and as you secured a pretty generous outfit of clothes before college opened, the sum I am sending should take care of all necessary expenditures for the balance of the term, vacation expenses during the Christmas holidays, and should leave a generous balance for the winter term. If under this arrangement you are able to keep your expenses down within the proper bounds, I shall be only too glad to continue the plan, for it is a much easier one for me to handle and tends to save us both a good bit of unnecessary trouble and annoyance. So please do your best. Be sure, also, to keep a detailed account of all expenditures, one that I can submit to your father, if desired, when the regular accounts are sent home.
The ANDOVER TOWNSMAN announces your election to some student governing committee, but as you have not mentioned it in your letters to me, I am wondering whether the report is true, and, if so, how the Townsman happened to know about it before I did.
With all good wishes, believe me
Very sincerely yours,
As luck would have it, I made out for you last night the enclosed check for $300.00 and intended to send it in this morning’s mail. On arrival at the office, I find your letter which fits into the program nicely.
My idea is to allow you to test out yourself a bit in the handling of funds by having a bank account just as Charlie and Quincy have done since they went to college. As the heavy college bills for the first half year have already been paid and as you secured a pretty generous outfit of clothes before college opened, the sum I am sending should take care of all necessary expenditures for the balance of the term, vacation expenses during the Christmas holidays, and should leave a generous balance for the winter term. If under this arrangement you are able to keep your expenses down within the proper bounds, I shall be only too glad to continue the plan, for it is a much easier one for me to handle and tends to save us both a good bit of unnecessary trouble and annoyance. So please do your best. Be sure, also, to keep a detailed account of all expenditures, one that I can submit to your father, if desired, when the regular accounts are sent home.
The ANDOVER TOWNSMAN announces your election to some student governing committee, but as you have not mentioned it in your letters to me, I am wondering whether the report is true, and, if so, how the Townsman happened to know about it before I did.
With all good wishes, believe me
Very sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
November 2, 1926
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence