Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, September 3, 1930
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Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, September 3, 1930
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Letter from Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, to Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, September 3, 1930
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Dear Mr. Stearns,
As I said in my last letter to you, I am herewith submitting to you a budget which I plan to follow at yale this year. The following are the figures which I estimated to be expenses. These figures, however are for one term only, namely till Christmas. Not knowing the conditions, I am rather skeptical about making estimates too far ahead. I am sure, however, there will be little difference among the three terms.
Tuition 300.00
Registration 5.00
Room, 2 weeks in sept. 5.50 11.00
Room, Oct. 1--Dec. 18. 6.0 66.00
Board, sept 17-Dec. 18 150.00
Laundry 20.00
General expenses 200.00
752.00
Due to the lack of knowledge of the conditions, expenses, down there, I present the above only as the rough estimate of my expenses. The tuition of three hundred dollars, probably is payable in two payments at the beginning of each semester. That will make it one hundred and fifty dollars instead of three hundred, for the first term, and another hundred and fifty during the second term.
The Board bill of 150.00 seems large at first, but at second glance, it is different. The first term (from fall till Christmas) covers thirteen weeks. The 150.00 dollar appropriation is only slightly more than eleven dollars per week. I was down there for three days, and I tried every resturant [sic] and diner cart, and it is just almost impossible to get a decent meal for less than seventy-five cents.
The two hundred dollar general excense item seems strange. In that I included everything such as fees here and there, tickets to football games, gym fees, subscription to yale papers, magazines, etc. Every little odds and ends are included in this item.
My meager knowledge of things down there, although I have been down there is against the budget. I trust you know more about New Haven than I do, and I home that you will use your judgement in giving me the money that I will have to have for the first term. The banks down there require a balance of one hundred dollars all the time, otherwise, a fine of five dollars is imposed or they won’t even keep the account.
Give me what you will and what you consider enough to meet the expenses down there. I am leaving the matter to you to decide. I am going to be in Middlebury for about a week more, and then I think I will be going to New Haven to await the opening of school down there. The reason is because there is nothing to do here. If you will send me the money here to me in Middlebury, please do so within a week or send it so that I will receive it before next Wednesday. After, I may be in New Haven, or in New York, or some other place, I don’t know where. So it is best to send the money to me here, and when I go down to New Haven, I can deposit it in a bank down there.
Please let me hear from you in the near future.
sincerely yours
As I said in my last letter to you, I am herewith submitting to you a budget which I plan to follow at yale this year. The following are the figures which I estimated to be expenses. These figures, however are for one term only, namely till Christmas. Not knowing the conditions, I am rather skeptical about making estimates too far ahead. I am sure, however, there will be little difference among the three terms.
Tuition 300.00
Registration 5.00
Room, 2 weeks in sept. 5.50 11.00
Room, Oct. 1--Dec. 18. 6.0 66.00
Board, sept 17-Dec. 18 150.00
Laundry 20.00
General expenses 200.00
752.00
Due to the lack of knowledge of the conditions, expenses, down there, I present the above only as the rough estimate of my expenses. The tuition of three hundred dollars, probably is payable in two payments at the beginning of each semester. That will make it one hundred and fifty dollars instead of three hundred, for the first term, and another hundred and fifty during the second term.
The Board bill of 150.00 seems large at first, but at second glance, it is different. The first term (from fall till Christmas) covers thirteen weeks. The 150.00 dollar appropriation is only slightly more than eleven dollars per week. I was down there for three days, and I tried every resturant [sic] and diner cart, and it is just almost impossible to get a decent meal for less than seventy-five cents.
The two hundred dollar general excense item seems strange. In that I included everything such as fees here and there, tickets to football games, gym fees, subscription to yale papers, magazines, etc. Every little odds and ends are included in this item.
My meager knowledge of things down there, although I have been down there is against the budget. I trust you know more about New Haven than I do, and I home that you will use your judgement in giving me the money that I will have to have for the first term. The banks down there require a balance of one hundred dollars all the time, otherwise, a fine of five dollars is imposed or they won’t even keep the account.
Give me what you will and what you consider enough to meet the expenses down there. I am leaving the matter to you to decide. I am going to be in Middlebury for about a week more, and then I think I will be going to New Haven to await the opening of school down there. The reason is because there is nothing to do here. If you will send me the money here to me in Middlebury, please do so within a week or send it so that I will receive it before next Wednesday. After, I may be in New Haven, or in New York, or some other place, I don’t know where. So it is best to send the money to me here, and when I go down to New Haven, I can deposit it in a bank down there.
Please let me hear from you in the near future.
sincerely yours
Creator
Thomas Sun
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 3, 1930
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Language
English
Type
Correspondence