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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. November 7, 1921
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My dear Mr. Liang;
Your fine letter is before me. Welcome to the U.S.A.! I had read in the paper of your presence in this country as Head of the Chinese Delegation to the Conference, and it did not take me long to spread the good news among the Chinese boys here. Needless to say, they share my enthusiastic hope that we are going to get a glimpse of you before you return. Do come up and see us. Just bear in mind that the latch string at my house is always out for you and that the rest and relaxation you will doubtless need after the strenuous days of the Conference can be had up here in the quiet of Andover Hill to probably as good an advantage as anywhere else. Nothing would please me better than to have you camp with me for a few days anyway. Of course if we can see you earlier so much the better.
With kindest personal regards in which all would join if they knew of my writing, believe me always
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
M.T. Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. November 22, 1921
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My dear Mr. Liang:
Let me thank you for your nice letter of November 19. I feared we might not be able to get you for the Thanksgiving recess, owing to the situation in Washington and its special significance to the Chinese group. In any case, you must understand that we shall count on you for a part, at least, of the Christmas holidays if you are still in this country. If you have to leave before that time, you must plan to make us an earlier visit. You will need rest and relaxation after these strenuous days, and I do not know where you could get it better than up here.
Of course the Sun boys are eager to see their sister and she must come, too. Mary Sun is at school at Northfield with my own daughter and is due back here for the holidays several days before Christmas. I know she would feel dreadfully disappointed to miss her sister.
No one watches more eagerly than I do the daily news from the Conference, especially as it bears upon China and the Far Eastern problems. China has the tremendous advantage of presenting a clear-cut moral issue, on the main propositions of which there can be no fair ground for serious debate. Details, of course, can be worked out in time, but justice, alone, demands that the unfortunate inheritances of the past be wiped clean off the slate and China given a fair and free opportunity to set her own house in order and handle her own affairs. To do this and at the same time protect China from the ambitions of her unscrupulous labor will not be an altogether easy matter. I am wondering just how the problem will be best solved. Needless to say, I should welcome the chance to get your point of view.
With warmest personal regards, believe me always
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
M.T. Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. December 5, 1921
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My dear Mr. Liang:
I have read with the deepest interest your letter received this morning. Don't worry further about Mary Sun. I wrote her a long letter after I heard of her homesickness and received the nicest kind of a reply. She tells me that the reports were a bit exaggerated, that she is happy and has no intention of giving up the American connection at this time. I am due in Northfield a week from this coming Sunday and shall have a chance to talk things over with her in person. I hope and believe that her feelings were only transient, for, as you say, it is only too natural that these youngsters should feel the pull of the home and the dear ones in China and indulge occasionally in that normal, if distressing, affliction known as homesickness. The great wonder to me is that more of them don't succumb and oftener. I am sure that if conditions were reversed our American boys and girls would not show the same self-control and bravery that these fine youngsters from the Orient display.
We shall be sorry indeed if you do not find it possible to share in our Christmas festivities. Do come, however, as you have suggested, before the Christmas party breaks up. I have already invited the Chens and will continue to urge them to join us. I know it will mean everything to the brothers and sisters of Mrs. Chen, and it will be a real pleasure to the rest of us, too.
I thank you most heartily for your kind thought of me and I am sure the Manila cigars will not only be enjoyed, but will have a double value in that they will take me back to those golden days in China which still find a big place in my memory and furnish me often, as I think of them, with new pleasure and helpful uplift.
I don't know who my good friend could be who was rash enough to sing my praises in your presence. I only hope that he was sober and in his right mind. Needless to say, I am following with the keenest interest what is going on in Washington these days, particularly as it relates to China. It really does seem as if China was at last to be treated with some show of justice and goodwill, and for this I am supremely grateful. I don't like, however, the suggestion conveyed in the morning paper that Japan is determined to retain her grip on Manchuria. I hope the report is incorrect. With warmest personal regards and assurances of my highest esteem and goodwill, believe me always
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
M.T. Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. January 13, 1922 (regarding Yuan brothers)
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Chinese Delegation, Washington, D.C. January 13, 1922 (regarding Yuan brothers)
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My dear Mr. Liang:
Thank you for your good letter received this morning. I shall appreciate more deeply than I can tell you anything you are able to do to relieve my mind in regard to the Kung matter. Please do not burden yourself unduly, however, with my personal troubles; you doubtless have enough of your own.
I am glad to report that the Yuan boys are much better. William is back here and at work, apparently in good condition. Henry is still at the hospital in Boston and may have to remain there a week or two longer. He is reported to be getting on well, though, and it is believed that the mastoid operation, which at one time was considered almost necessary, will not be required.
All the rest of the Chinese group seem to be in excellent condition and spirits and would join in sending you, if they knew of this letter, their friendly greetings and good wishes.
Faithfully yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
M.T. Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin September 9, 1922
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My dear Liang:
Your nice letter of April 10 should have been answered long before this. The missive reached me, however, just past the close of the school year when the pressure of work was mounting and when personal mail was of necessity sidetracked.
It may interest you to know that within the past two or three weeks I have received a letter from Mr. Kung, Senior, enclosing check to cover the outstanding bills on his son's account. The older brother also visited me this fall. Mr. Kung writes that his delay in sending the check was due to his failure to receive any statement from me as to how the account stood. This statement I purposely refrained from sending until I had received some word, however brief, acknowledging the receipt of my letters bearing news of the tragedy which had befallen us. I could not understand the silence, as you know, and I naturally hesitated to send the financial account until I had received some assurance that the earlier correspondence had not miscarried. It had been a relief to me and to Miss Clemons, the extent of which I cannot begin to express. to secure even this brief message from the Kung family, the first direct work that has reached us since the tragedy over a year ago.
Mr. Sun has written me enthusiastically about your reports of the children and their condition. I wish you could have been with us this summer. The boys had a wonderful season at camp and came home in the pink of physical condition and in the highest spirits. All five of them were with us.
I am immensely interested to learn that your daughter and son are coming to the states this fall. Even though they are located in Springfield, I hope they will always consider Andover and my house a sort of second home and will visit us often and freely. It will be a pleasure and privilege to welcome and to aid them in any way I can.
With renewed assurances of my personal esteem and with every best wish for the days ahead, believe me
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
M.T. Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, S.S. Wanachee, Seattle February 22, 1922
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, S.S. Wanachee, Seattle February 22, 1922
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Dear Mr. Liang:
Just a brief note to acknowledge receipt of your message of February 21st and to wish you a pleasant voyage and a happy return to the homeland. All of the representatives of your country here in Andover are well and seemingly happy at the present time, with the possible exception of Quincy Sheh who has been at the infirmary for a day or two suffering from a sore throat, but whom the doctor plans to discharge to-morrow or next day. I am sure that all would join in sending you greetings and good wishes for yourself and for the friends at home if they know of my writing.
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
M.T. Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 29, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 29, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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My dear Mr. Gardner:
I feel that just a word is due you explaining my latest actions, and those of our good friend, Tommy Liang, in connection with the proposed transfer of the boy from Exeter to Andover. The transfer was duly accomplished. A room in my house was got ready, at some considerable labor, because the room in question was one of my regular guest rooms. Tommy, with due amount of baggage, arrived safely at the Andover station, where I met him and conveyed him to the house. There he was met by a number of his old Chinese friends, and apparently was delighted with the new arrangements made for his welfare. I asked him very plainly and sincerely, several times, if he really desired to make the change, or was likely to be unhappy in it, suggesting that if the latter were the case I should be disposed to recommend to you that the Exeter connection be retained. He assured me very emphatically that he preferred to be at Andover and was very glad that the transfer had taken place.
As I had to leave town very shortly after his arrival I arranged with one of the other Chinese boys to accompany him to his first recitations and to introduce him to his class officer. Soon after my return next day I was called on by Mr. Williams of Exeter, who advised me that Tommy had called him up the night before, stated that he was homesick, and desired to return to Exeter. Mr. Williams’ trip to Andover was prompted by this interview. Knowing from a pretty long experience the sudden waves of emotion that sweep over these new comers from the Orient, I was a bit surprised that Mr. Williams had attached so much importance to the boy's very natural reaction to the new environment. After talking with him a while, however, I came to the conclusion that he himself had clearly made up his mind that the boy should not have left Exeter, and as I found myself in a somewhat awkward position I did not deem it wise to argue the other side of tho question with any force. When Mr. Williams told me that he wished to talk with Liang about the situation I decided definitely that it would probably be better for me to say nothing more, but to favor the boy’s return to Exeter. As graciously as I could, therefore, I accepted the suggestions made by Mr. Williams, in favor of the re-transfer, and assured him that it was my only wish that the father’s plans for the boy, as he had given them to me in the past, should be carried out, and the boy’s best welfare furthered. Unfortunately, I was again on the point of leaving town for an engagement elsewhere and therefore had no further chance to learn of the final outcome until my return on Monday. I told Mr. Williams before leaving that, if the boy was to go back to Exeter eventually, it seemed wise, in my judgment, that the step should be taken at once rather than later. I found on my return that the suggestion had been complied with and that Liang had gone back to the New Hampshire school, whither his baggage speedily followed him. I felt it only fair that you should have these facts, in order that you might understand my position in a somewhat confused situation. Before leaving Mr. Williams assured me that he would send me a copy of a letter which he proposed to write to you explaining things, and that I would receive from you, either by telephone or by letter, a full endorsement of the plan. I told him that I felt this was necessary since you were the boy’s guardian, and that your wishes, of course, should first be consulted, and your recommendations adopted. Thus far I have not seen the letter in question, but I understand from my housekeeper that you did call me on the phone for the purpose of confirming Mr. Williams’s action.
I am sure that you will appreciate that my attitude and action in this whole matter has been prompted wholly by my personal friendship with Mr. Liang, and my definite promise to him when he was here that I would take a personal interest in his boy if he did decide to come to Andover, and my natural wish to deal as kindly, at least, with Mr. Liang’s boy, as I have tried to deal with the sons and daughters of several of Mr. Liang’s personal friends who were placed in my charge under the latter's own solicitation. I am sure that young Liang will be perfectly happy at Exeter, and well taken care of, and I think I am safe in saying that the same would have been true had he remained at Andover, and the very natural early reactions resulting from the sudden change been taken a bit less seriously.
Again let me assure you of my regret at the seemingly unnecessary trouble which I have caused you.
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
George C. Gardner
Tommy Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 24, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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Dear Mr. Gardner:
On receipt of your wire I telephoned Mr. Perry at Exeter, who got in touch with young Liang, and he came down to see me yesterday. He had lunch with me and I took him to Lawrence early in the afternoon to catch the express for Exeter so that he would not lose his afternoon recitations. It has been arranged for the transfer to take place today for, after going over carefully with the boy and the instructors here, the problems connected with his schedule have straightened out and it seemed to us all wise that the new start should be made at as early a date as possible, At first I was inclined to concur in Mr. Perry’s suggestion that it might be well to let the boy finish out the current term at Exeter and come to us at the opening of the winter term. After discussing with Liang, however, the work he is doing, and, in view of the fact that our fall term lasts eight days longer than that at Exeter, we both agreed that the earlier change would be to the boy’s advantage.
Liang was very much pleased to find two or three of his old friends here at Andover whom he had not realized were with us, and he tells me that he is really eager to come to us, so that my lingering doubts as to the wisdom of urging the change have disappeared, and I hope and believe that the boy will find the new environment a happy and beneficial one. He will take a room in my house for the present, though he has already assured me that he would prefer to stay there definitely. For my part I am not quite sure that this would be wise, but we can tell a bit better later.
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
George C. Gardner
Tommy Liang
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Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 21, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
George C. Gardner
Tommy Liang
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to George C. Gardner, Springfield, Mass. November 16, 1922 (regarding Tommy Liang)
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My dear Mr. Gardner:
Thank you for your frank and friendly letter received this morning. Dr. Perry is to be my guest Saturday in connection with our annual football contest with his school; and I will have a good opportunity to explain to him the complications that have developed over young Liang's school connection, and I am sure that he will understand fully and cooperate in a generous way. If any question arises in regard to fees due or already paid at Exeter, we shall be ready and glad to waive the first half year's payment here. There is no reason, therefore, why there should be any extra expense involved in the change. In justice to Mr. Liang this is as it should be; for I know from experience that our Chinese friends, regardless of their individual means, are, in the large majority of cases, very eager that their children should learn by actual restraint in expenditure the value of money.
Mr. Liang has often told me of his intimate relations with and affection for your family. My own associations with the Chinese began when Liang Chontung, one of that early group of Chinese Pioneers, returned to this country as Ambassador and almost at once visited his old school at Andover. We made a good deal of him at the time; and I had the privilege of passing several days as his guest at the Chinese Legation in Washington. On that first return visit to Andover he brought a group of boys whom he left in my charge; and, as a result of that beginning, I have had a hundred or more boys in school here during the last fifteen or twenty years and have filled the position of American guardian and adviser for some fifty of them. These most interesting relationships induced me to turn my eyes toward China, when in 1912 the trustees granted me a year's leave of absence. The warm and friendly hospitality extended so generously to me there has always been one of my most valued memories and has led to even closer and wider friendships with these most attractive people in later years. Mr. M.T. Liang, especially, had so often gone out of his way to show his friendship and goodwill that I felt all the more keenly the slip which had been made in my office in answering your letter of inquiry. I am delighted that there is now a good chance of making the Andover contact with Liang's boy.
Very sincerely yours,
Dr. Alfred E. Stearns
George C. Gardner
Tommy Liang