1 10 66 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/622de559e649fcef8a60462d5f8eb5c1.jpg 5e58f240dea83bcf3cdc57f6097c34a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, January 1, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, January 1, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/07bf4c0b67011ec1eb3f582a1065a482.jpg 91f17d700f210823013238023ba0d801 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., January 2, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., January 2, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for your good note received this morning, and good luck to you on those State Board examinations. Thanks, too, for the combination Christmas present from yourself and Tommy, a present which I appreciate doubly because of the source from which it comes. It will prove useful, I am sure, in the days ahead, and will always have a fragrant little suggestion of two former members of my family circle. If you haven’t recently heard from your father, I have some good news to report to you, for only a couple of days ago I received a long letter from him in which he tells me of the plans he has settled upon for your return to China after your graduation in June. He says that he had previously promised you a trip to Europe, and since you did not take the trip at the time, he expects you to make it after your graduation and before your return to the home land. He has asked me to see that you have funds for this and also later the additional amount you will require to cover the passage to China. Evidently he assumes that you will go to Europe and then return to America, making the home journey by way of the Pacific. He explains also the method by which any balance to your credit should be transferred in gold dollars to the National City Bank of New York at Tientsin. These are matters, however, which we can talk over together at some later date, though if you will tell me just when you will be prepared to start for Europe after the graduation in June, perhaps it would be well for me to start inquiries in regard to your steamer reservations, etc. Naturally I am hoping that all this will come as real and welcome news to you, and will aid in making this New Year the happiest ever. Let me know what I can do to help you and count on me for all the help that it is in my power to give. With every best wish, believe me Always sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 2, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ff71f800022290a99e8bc37ad32e69e1.jpg fa7f744832b01d51b4b11b173dfd855d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0ffc2a1a10fe1d192617a6fb4c5ee13b.jpg faf071acf0249526f3139df82598e3f0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/598d292879059d17a37ee39b409d6029.jpg 2a266f7bb9b331eb941a694117d93e07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns January 3, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns January 3, 1931 Relation A related resource My Dear Dr. Stearns, I received a letter from home yesterday and the contents therein gave vent to rather sad feelings. It occurred in the family three deaths consisting two aunts, who had been living with us ever since we were born, and our third sister, Dorothy. The news took me by surprise, but I managed to keep rather composed. I guess the ten or more years in the States hardened me to face such circumstances. However, I do feel deeply affected by it, but, at the same time, I did not go into hysterics. What is worrying me is breaking the news to Mary. She, being a woman, naturally will take it more to heart. Originally I planned to have a face to face talk with her, but she is, at the present moment, sick in bed, so I told her over the phone about the deaths of the two aunts and refrained to disclose the news concerning Dorothy. I did not expect that she will go into tears to receive the news which I did give her. I thought that, being a nurse, she will look upon death because of old age is a natural thing, but she did not apparently think so. But, I am sure that in a day or so, she will feel much better and will be cheerful again. But to tell her about the death of Dorothy will be real difficult, because she is so young when she passed away, and also because they are such good pals. I shall use my discretion in doing so. But on the other hand, since Dorothy passed away last April, I see no reason to tell her about it right away. I went to the New Haven Hospital this morning and had an occasion to talk with the Director and Superintendent of nurses and they were very kind to me. I arranged matters with them so that Mary can have a few days off if she wishes. But if she insists upon staying on duty, I have also arranged to have her put on call duty thus leaving her little time to mourn, in which case, she will be fully occupied for the better part of the twenty-four hours of the day. I did all this all within my own responsibility, because I think it is best for her. Being her brother, I feel that it my duty to look after her although she is older than I. I think, under such circumstances, my judgements will be better than hers because of her softer heart. However, I think a cheerful letter from you with no mention of the deaths will also add much to her disposition. In the mean time, I shall do all I can to cheer her up. I plan to take her to a concert given by Roland Hayes, the famous Negro tenor. I am sure it will be a good thing for her. I shall also see her to-morrow after she comes off duty. I am getting along nicely, although the work here is very difficult and volumnous [sic]. At the present rate I am goin [sic], I see little chance to finish so as to receive my degree ahead of time as I originally planned. But with a little work during the two summer vacations to come, I hope to achieve some toward that end. I have had several talks with Mary concerning her future after graduation from the hospital. I am of the opinion that she wants to go home in June. Personally, I think it is the best thing for her. Because of the acute unemployment situation in the nursing profession, it is rather difficult to find the position she wants. If she means to remain in this country, I strongly believe she will have to take a position at the New Haven Hospital under contract for at least one year, which she has no intention of doing. It is almost next to impossible for her to secure a position at some other hospital either in New York or elsewhere, because of the fact they all have their own trained nurses on their registry. Furthermore, she will be able to secure a better position in China where nurses are in great demand, and her value there will be of greater opportunity for her. As for myself, I am ready to do what Father says. I have been in this country so long now that it is of little importance whether or not I stay another year. However, I am looking ahead anxiously---to the day when I shall embark for homeland. After all, I have a home there where Mother is waiting, and she is getting old, and also Father. That is my field of my future work, and I can never neglect it too long. I am moving either to-day or to-morrow to my new quarters in the new Law School dormitory which has just been finished. I am sure I will like the room there, because I shall be right in the midst of intellectual surroundings which undoubtedly will give my greater incentive to work. The house where I am staying is rather distanced from the library or the classrooms where I spent all my time, but my new quarters is only next door to the new library and it will be immensely more convenient. I had an occasion to go to New York for a two-day vacation during the Christmas holidays and found out to my surprise that I can speak Chinese much better than I expected of myself. However, I am still painfully ignorant as to reading and writing. I hope, in time, that will also come back to me with some practice. I hope you will have a very successful 1931. Please give my regards to Miss Clemens and Marjory. I am Very sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 3, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/36c5cbec04261996d56186c57bd08da3.jpg 2efc29c277b34d125824975ab7e07d4c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 5, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read with keenest interest your newsy letter received this morning, but I am sorrier than I can tell you to learn of the distressing news you have had from home. Such things must happen, of course, and they do happen to all of us, but so long as we are human and with human reactions, they are bound to bring their sorrow and distress. My sympathy goes out to you and Mary in fullest measure, but I am confident that you will face these hard knocks with the courage and control which both of you have been developing so finely in recent years I fully share your feelings that it would be well to break the news slowly to Mary of the death of her sister. Needless to say, I am distressed to learn that Mary has been ill in bed, but trust with you that she will shortly be her own good healthy self again. Undoubtedly she will be better off at work as you say than with time on her hands in which to think about her troubles. Curiously, I had already written Mary only two days ago a letter which ought to cheer her immensely, for it contained the news just transmitted to me in a letter from her father that after her graduation in June she was to arrange for a trip to Europe, which her father had earlier promised her, and then start back for China and home. Certainly China is the place where Mary ought to be, and where I am sure she can do her greatest work, for as you say, there is a large and increasing demand for nursing of the best kind in China, and Mary with her training ought to be able to offer only the best. And so with my deep sympathy for you in your recent losses go also my very best wishes for a truly happy and satisfying New Year. I am delighted to know that you find the work increasingly interesting. The fact that it is hard won’t hurt you a bit in the end. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 5, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0f4e799ee8aaf26683035843e17bf059.jpg 20c6e6c7ebdbc506d5b9c1286bd8f89e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/93c27478e16225a65ca0beb02c7d1ebf.jpg 6827e8e17ccf492f4e7bc32722cc3cd1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, January 16, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, January 16, 1931 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, There is one thing which has been on my mind, and which I have been cherishing for the last three or four years, and this thing has never before "gotten” me as strongly as this year. To speak frankly and boldly I want to go home. I have written to you several times previously concerning it, and I venture to bring up the matter before you again for any possible decision. I will have to admit that, for a man, I am a little sentimental, and the home always appeal more to me than it does to most men. For the past ten and a half years in the United States, I stayed in no one place long enough to enable me to call that place home—even Middlebury. I have now reached a certain stage and age when I need a home--a permanent home where I can be with my parents. I may be a little bit too young to speak thus, but one can not deny his most treasured desires. As you know, Father and Mother are getting old. They have gone through uncountable sacrifices for my being here. I like to tell you everything, but that will be impossible--it is something very personal and private which I can not divulge. Therefore, I hope you will take my decision and think that it is the best thing for me to do, I have thought this over for the past three or four years, and after such a lengthy deliberation, I am bound to think that my decision is correct—inequivocably [sic] so. You may think that since Charlie does not take the same attitude as I do, and there is no reason why I should want to go home any more than he does. To tell you frankly and most confidentially, my position is different. Why, I can not tell you. Beyond that I can not tell you, but I hope you will trust in my judgement in something in which I am vitally concerned. I am not at all ashamed to say that I have cried some this year from sheer homesickness for Mother and Dad. I wish my English is good enough to tell you how much I want to go home, and what it means to me. To me, nothing matters except my home. I have lost interest in everything, and the work here is becoming to be a grudge, contrary to what I said to you in my last letter to you. It is a grudge from which I learn little, because I have not my heart in it. I can not help but think that Mother has not seen me for over ten years, and it will be, at least, eleven years before she can set her eyes on me again. I am the one for whom she has been living for--this I know--waiting anxiously, patiently, hopefully, and courageously to see her son come home a man of whom she can be proud. I left her when I was a child of ten. I have never been with my Mother at an age when I can appreciate her. Now I am old enough to understand and know what she means to me, and I do not want to be deprived of the most beautiful love in existance [sic]. The picture comes before me often--a picture which I have always remembered. When I was boarding a boat, which took me from Tientsin to Shanghai, I saw Mother crying in some darkened place so that she would not be seen. I did not even know enough then to go to say good-bye to her. Curse me! I did not even know enough then to cry. I did not even know enough then to realize that I was going away for eleven or more years. I did not even know enough then that I was not going to see her for a long time. After all, I have a heart. And that heart beats for my Mother. Am I to be denied of the person to whom I owe my very existance[sic]—Mother? Since I received the news of the three deaths from home, I can not help but realize that my association with Mother was cut short by eleven years and may be more. Eleven years of the best part of my life--when I ought to be with her—when she ought to have me. Suppose the inevitable happens, and the last time I saw her was eleven years ago! Then, indeed, then, there will be little for which to live. I dread the thought of it, and yet I can not escape from it. God, give me strength. I will lose nothing by going home. Home means more to me than any degree in existance[sic]—more than all the degrees put together. I can go home for a year or so and then come back again to finish my studies. If that is the condition under which I go home, I will keep it if Mother will come with me. Can’t you do something? Something? Something so I can go home? Please try. I can not tell you what it means to me. I wish I can tell you everything, but it is impossible. Please do something, I beg of you. Most sincerely, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 16, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3ae4410762d5600322d4b6a7affc65fd.jpg 8d261a577f6a785eff3d445baa914e57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 20, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 20, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read with the keenest interest and sympathy your letter of January 16, though naturally I am terribly sorry to find how thoroughly upset you are over conditions and your own situation. Anyway, I am glad to know that you have decided so definitely that you ought to go home, for when you wore here last year I couldn’t make up my mind as to just what you thought you ought to do or where you ought to be. I don’t know what I can do beyond writing your father that in my judgment you ought to be allowed to go home at the end of this year for at least a year’s time. That I am willing and glad to do, for I do think you deserve a break, at least, in your American work, and my own judgment is that if you are going to live in China for the rest of your life, you ought not to delay your return any longer than is absolutely necessary. It will be increasingly difficult for you to make the readjustments when you get back, and it will be hard enough at best. So cheer up, and I will write your father at once and see if we can persuade him that the home journey is the thing for you. I hope most earnestly that he will so decide. But what about Charlie? My guess is that Charlie would like to go just as badly as you would. Possibly I can bring your father to believe that it is now time for all three of you to go back and rejoin your own family. Don’t hope too much on the outcome of my venture, for I can’t tell just how your father will take my intervention. He may even resent it. The best I can do is to try, and that, as I have said above, I am ready and glad to do. So, once again, cheer up, and believe me with all best wishes, Ever sincerely yours, Before I write your father please tell me if it is proper for me to tell him that you have written me on the subject. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 20, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d4b477de337728c224d347dc5c5f6bca.jpg a73d80426c07c038fb95f7799625da13 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e9efa0013d64b9193aa404fb945933b8.jpg fe90672661c54278562d0398866ef337 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, January 22, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, January 22, 1931 Description An account of the resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I received your good letter this morning, and I want to thank you for your kind efforts and sympathy. I admit, after several days of deep thinking, that the last letter to you written by me was accomplished in a heat of emotionalism. Now, since I have calmed, I may be able to talk with you about the matter more diplomatically from my father’s view-point. There is not a doubt in my mind that I want to go home. Nothing will please me more than to be able to do so. I realize that I will be quitting my work before it is finished, and that is why I am writing to you this letter. Father sent me here to study and to Yale for me to get a Doctor’s degree, and I know pretty definitely that he will be rather disappointed if I failed at the attempt. He had made some very noble sacrifices for me--if I am to be considered,--and it is not right for me to ”go back on him” no matter how badly I want to go home. I am ready to do what he says and sacrifice myself for him in return. As for mother, I do not know what to say. I want to see her, there is no doubt about that. What I said in the last letter is true to the last letter concerning her, and I do not have any intentions of changing my stand. If it makes her happier for me to stay here and go home a Doctor Sun, I shall do so. I presume, the longer the delay, the sweeter the reunion. What I am worrying about is what is liable to happen in the meantime. It might suffice to say that nothing will happen, but if anything should happen, then everything will be too late. I do not know what to advice you to tell my father when you write him. However, I think it is best to leave out whatever I said about mother entirely. Just tell him the circumstances as you have done in the past. Constant reminding of the matter to him is liable to bring about a change of mind on his part. Mary is going home this summer, and she will make Father understand, I am sure. I think she understands my point as well as anyone. Then she can have a heart to heart talk with him which is liable to bring about another point in his way of looking of things. I do not dare to write father exactly what I have in mind, and so far no one knows the real significance of my wanting to go home, and chances are that no one will. I am ready to stay here another two or three years rather than let my thoughts be known. But when it happens, everyone shall know about it. Personally--"just between you and me"--I am sick of studying, especially under regulations and routine. I think I will enjoy it if I am allowed to study whenever and wherever and whatever I please. But one can never get a degree that way. There are a lot of things which I will like to do but can’t just because I am tied down here with classes six times a week and staggering amount of work. Next semester I plan to take twelve classes and if they won’t allow me, I like to take ten. Anyway, I like to get in as much as I can in as short a period as I can. I realize that is not exactly the way to look at things, but I want to get through sometimes. However, I hope you will not tell father that I am sick of studying. I hate to change my mind again. As you said that you were glad that I have decided that I want to go home. I have decided that long ago, but I never dared to make myself clear because I am afraid it might cause father to be uneasy. That was the reason why I wrote you confidentially last time as I am doing this time. I hope you have not divulged anything I said to anyone. There are so many things that I want to talk over with you, and it is impossible to tell them all to you through one letter. I hope you will have a chance to come down to New Haven some time when you happen to be down this way on business. I am in the Law School Dormitory (Sterling Law Dormitory) room 2641. In the meantime, I hope you will write to Father and tell him just what you have told him in the past except with a little more emphasis. Tell him that you think I ought to have a little interval at home. He may refuse, but then the next time you or I write to him, he is just so much more converted to our idea. It will have to be a slow painful process, and by the time we succeed, it will be time for me to go home anyway, I think you will be rather angry at this letter, because of its uncertainty of tone. I can’t help that, I want to go home, and yet I do not want to offend father. If he has his heart set on a Ph.D,, he is just as firm in his convictions as we are in ours—hence the uncertainty. The last letter was father written purely from my standpoint and I did not take into consideration at all. I don’t know what to think, and do not know what to do. I think you will have to do the thinking and doing for me. I am determined on my stand of going home, and I am just as determined to give father whatever he wants, and still I am just as determined to know for sure that mother is well and is not suffering too much--nay, none at all. What is the result, I do not know. Such is the condition, and I am afraid to say that I can’t solve it to the satisfaction of all. At any rate, I hope you will write father sometimes in the immediate future and ask him. But please don’t bring in anything I said about Mother in the last letter, I don’t think father will like that. Undoubtedly it is a good argument, but I refuse to use it in urging father to let me go home, because, then, he is liable to decide against his own view. And I do not want that to happen. If father wants me to go home, he should decide in his own way. I hope you will understand. I am afraid I will have some bad news for you soon. I will be needing some money in a few weeks. I have kept a graphic account of my expenses to the cent. Sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 22, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d18d832d3e82879a4ba34b2e5562a80b.jpg da3b0320542b1be04dc66d87a55ed62f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read carefully and with interest your letter of January 22, just received. Don’t worry - I am not going to give you away, for I have a lot of sympathy with your feelings and I want you to feel that you can always talk with me with the utmost freedom about your problems and interests. If I can’t help you in matters of this kind, it won’t be from any lack of desire on my part, I can assure you. Very possibly I shall be in New Haven before the term is over, though I have no definite engagement at present to call me down that way. If I not, and can’t got there, I shall be tempted to have you run up here some time so that we can talk things over frankly and fully face to face. Anyway, I grateful to you for telling me how far I should go in stating your case to your father, and I will be very careful not to mention anything relating to your mother, but just re-emphasize in a general way the arguments I have advanced in the past in favor of your return to China, if only for a comparatively short period. By the way, did Mary ever receive my letter in which I wrote her of her father’s letter to me saying that he wished her to return to China after a visit in England this next summer. Your father asked me to make proper arrangements for the trip, including steamer reservations, etc., and it is imperative that I should act soon if these arrangements are to prove satisfactory. I wrote Mary some time ago, and very fully, about it all, telling her just what her father’s instructions were, but I haven’t had even an acknowledgment of the letter and am naturally worried. Won’t you see her and ask her to write me at once so that I may know just what I am do to? So cheer up, and good luck to you. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 24, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2dccb248f97fb83be7d902eb597e4318.jpg ecd1467f7d6b8afb377dccb6c892568e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, January 29, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, January 29, 1931 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I have received your good letter of the 24th of this month, and want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for your kind efforts and sympathy toward me. I have telephoned to Mary concerning her trip to Europe and arrangement of her passage by you. She said rather definitely that she does not wish to make the trip. The reasons she gave for it are, in the first place, she will be very sea-sick, and in the second place, the trip involves time and expense which she could use very well by going home. As far as the passage goes, you can be pretty sure that it will be all right for you to drop all negotiations for them. I have just taken my last examination, and I think I have fared pretty well. However, the marks won’t be out for some time. I am expecting to do pretty well in all the courses, unless I am sorely disappointed and disillusioned. Sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 29, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/da578eeb6d2cc5f67cdbf27397d41480.jpg 112fa249c3148c95acf53a5b5ea1e019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 2, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 2, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of January 29. Even if Mary has decided that she doesn’t care to go to Europe, she has no business to leave me in the dark as she has done, or even to delay me in making arrangements for her passage back to China. I have no interest in the trip to Europe beyond my wish to carry out the instructions of your father, which I assumed ware prompted by his desire to do what Mary herself wished. Your father wrote me in his letter that he had promised Mary this trip, and it seemed evident that he himself believed that he was doing a real favor which she desired and would thoroughly appreciate. Anyway, I wish you would tell Mary to write me at once so that I will know what to plan, for I am in duty bound to carry out her father’s instructions or else explain to him why I haven’t done so. I do hope your exam results will be all and even more than you had anticipated. Success and good luck to you! Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 2, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun