Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 15, 1930
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Title
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 15, 1930
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 15, 1930
Transcription
Dear Tommie:
Your letter of September 3 reached me just as I was breaking up camp in the north country, and I have been too busy since my return to Andover to attend to the matters discussed in it until today.
I admit that the budget you have submitted looks a bit large, but I admit also that in a wholly new environment one cannot estimate very closely in advance just what expenses will turn up. It seems to me probably best to send the larger part of the account you have specified, leaving out only the second installment on the tuition, which, as you have inferred, will not be due until later in the college year. All I can do is to ask you to exercise every reasonable care in incurring expenses, for we must find a way somehow to offset by economies the extra expense involved in the car and its operation. Otherwise I am sure your father would object, and very seriously, to my leniency in permitting you this luxury, for luxury it would certainly seem to him.
I am sending this letter and check to Middlebury, since I do not yet know your New Haven address, and trusting that you will keep your good friends there informed of your whereabouts so that the letter may be duly forwarded to you wherever you are at this time. The moment you have a settled address in New Haven, please let me have it.
With every best wish, believe me always
Very sincerely yours,
Your letter of September 3 reached me just as I was breaking up camp in the north country, and I have been too busy since my return to Andover to attend to the matters discussed in it until today.
I admit that the budget you have submitted looks a bit large, but I admit also that in a wholly new environment one cannot estimate very closely in advance just what expenses will turn up. It seems to me probably best to send the larger part of the account you have specified, leaving out only the second installment on the tuition, which, as you have inferred, will not be due until later in the college year. All I can do is to ask you to exercise every reasonable care in incurring expenses, for we must find a way somehow to offset by economies the extra expense involved in the car and its operation. Otherwise I am sure your father would object, and very seriously, to my leniency in permitting you this luxury, for luxury it would certainly seem to him.
I am sending this letter and check to Middlebury, since I do not yet know your New Haven address, and trusting that you will keep your good friends there informed of your whereabouts so that the letter may be duly forwarded to you wherever you are at this time. The moment you have a settled address in New Haven, please let me have it.
With every best wish, believe me always
Very sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 15, 1930
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence