Dear T. P.: — You ask me to tell you what to do with regard
to S——!! Lend him no money! dissuade your friends from lending him any.
He is becoming demoralized, I fear, by borrowing and living on others. Let him
undergo the natural cure — suffer and be saved.
Could I say without a blush to the next runaway, or honest
applicant for my help — “I can only give you so much because I have just
applied $20 to S——’s case?”
Ever yours,
Chev.
I may be wrong about it — but I am more likely, I fear, to
err on the side of leniency of judgment.
S. G. H.
SOURCES: Laura E. Richards, Editor, Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe,
Volume 2, p. 397
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