Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College September 30, 1926
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College September 30, 1926
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College September 30, 1926
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Dear Tommie:
I have read with great interest your last letter and also that which you wrote to Mr. Eaton and which Mr. Eaton showed to me. Congratulations, and hearty ones on your successes to date! Don't let them turn your head, though, or prompt you to feel that the Freshman year is going to be any snap. You will have your hands full, I am sure, if you weather that year successfully, and of course we can't consider anything but a successful outcome.
I have sent you $500.00, as you know, and in doing so I have some misgivings, naturally, in view of your past carelessness in handling money. My earnest hope is that, by putting this added responsibility on you, I shall be justified through finding that you have developed a clearer appreciation of money's value and a stronger will in keeping expenditures where they belong. If, when you seek to replenish your funds, you are able to render me a satisfactory account of the disbursement of the $500.00 in question, I shall be ready and glad to continue this arrangement, assuming, of course, that the money has lasted as long as it ought. If you can only do as well as Quincey and Charlie have done since they have been in college, I shall be delighted beyond words and at the first opportunity shall gladly pass on the good news to your father, who, I am sure, would be immensely relieved at such a report.
The best of luck to you,
Faithfully yours,
I have read with great interest your last letter and also that which you wrote to Mr. Eaton and which Mr. Eaton showed to me. Congratulations, and hearty ones on your successes to date! Don't let them turn your head, though, or prompt you to feel that the Freshman year is going to be any snap. You will have your hands full, I am sure, if you weather that year successfully, and of course we can't consider anything but a successful outcome.
I have sent you $500.00, as you know, and in doing so I have some misgivings, naturally, in view of your past carelessness in handling money. My earnest hope is that, by putting this added responsibility on you, I shall be justified through finding that you have developed a clearer appreciation of money's value and a stronger will in keeping expenditures where they belong. If, when you seek to replenish your funds, you are able to render me a satisfactory account of the disbursement of the $500.00 in question, I shall be ready and glad to continue this arrangement, assuming, of course, that the money has lasted as long as it ought. If you can only do as well as Quincey and Charlie have done since they have been in college, I shall be delighted beyond words and at the first opportunity shall gladly pass on the good news to your father, who, I am sure, would be immensely relieved at such a report.
The best of luck to you,
Faithfully yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 30, 1926
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence