1 10 66 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/95d3c1b68b30c7850f3d242b652ece6f.jpg 08e1bcbd73401bf6fbf44f03c07d50be 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., May 13, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., May 13, 1931 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 May 13, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thanks for your last letter - that of May 8. I don't see any reason why you should not go on the Japanese boat if the sailings and prices best meet your needs. I feel pretty confident that your father would approve. Alfred and Helen Tsai, who returned last summer, used a Japanese boat, and I think at their father’s expressed request. And so I am prepared to endorse the project and wish you the best of luck. I am glad that the trunk arrived safely. Sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/59c397aa4cf5c7ce16c5ce8af30b9b1d.jpg 95ad7895868508d49f005dc2aff0dd4b 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., April 15, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., April 15, 1931 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 April 15, 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 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your letter of April 12. No, your father hasn’t written me about any hangings or anything else that he had sent me, and your letter gives me the first intimation that I have had that anything of this kind was to be expected. I am sorry to hear that the hangings have been injured on their journey, but will write your father and explain what you have told me and express, of course, my appreciation of his kindly thought. I am glad to hear that you are coming to Andover before you leave, for I shall want to see you once more before you sail, and that will be the best and perhaps the only chance that I am likely to have, though I still hope to get to New Haven before the current term is over. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/94e17e557680db9048a0623855e1ba1f.jpg c27a5125f21219afd2a24bc7be1c5018 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 National City Bank of New York, London, February 26, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to National City Bank of New York, London, February 26, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Sirs: Att. C. P. N. - 3 Thank you for your note of February 16, advising me that the draft for three thousand dollars remitted to me on January 23 last was for the account of Mr. C.Y. Sun. I had assumed that this was so, but am glad to have my assumption confirmed. Very 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 February 26, 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 National City Bank of New York https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7db2c3d7324fd4333fc4502243ddb92b.jpg 84c9aa9039cab2ea7c2752e3a5ef6d1a 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., February 3, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., February 3, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your interesting letter of January 27. timed at 2 A.M., has given me a lot of pleasure and at a time when I was beginning to wonder what had happened to you. The fact is that when I wrote Tom a day or two ago, I was a little "sore" because it seemed to me that my earlier letter to you called for prompt attention. Not hearing anything, I felt wholly at sea in view of your father's instructions and my natural responsibility to him. Of course, when it comes to the proposed European trip, I haven’t a thing to say, for that particular proposition doesn’t interest me one way or the other except in far as it may interest you. From your father’s letter, I judged that he, at least, felt that he was offering you a real and unusual opportunity which he thought you would welcome enthusiastically. I doubt whether he would have suggested the trip, even, if he had not thought that you would feel that he was planning something well worth while for you. Under the circumstances, it seems to me that the only thing for you to do is to write direct to him and at once, and tell him just how you feel. My guess is that when he once learns the facts, he will agree with you that the right thing for you to do is to come directly home. In the meantime I am at a bit of a loss to know just what to do, for I can’t make reservations for you until I know this final decision, and these reservations ought to be made at a comparatively early date now if you are to get the kind that you wish. I can write your father myself, of course, and tell him what you have told me. I shall have to base my arguments, however, entirely on what you have written me, so that it is very important that you should get your own story before your father as fully and as soon as possible. There is a good chance that I may be in New Haven before the term is over, and if so I shall make an extra effort to hunt you up and talk things over with you in person. In the meantime, take good care of those babies that you are looking after, and take good care of yourself, too. 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 February 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 Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e32ff391b05383003fba96c887b1b025.jpg a500ca4f3246c3eddd07ee9b4bfa05fb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7998e510a212731c44268a66d562935b.jpg 872687e758dd22302b525061a5219622 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 Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London, March 17, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London, March 17, 1932 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 March 17, 1932 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 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your nice letter of February 26 reached me only yesterday, and brought real pleasure to all the members of the household, for Miss Clemons and Marjorie enjoyed it thoroughly, as did I. Frankly, I have been on the point of writing you for a long, long time, but since I have had no secretary during this period of my convalescence, I have found it utterly impossible to keep up with the letters which my kind and sympathetic friends have thrust upon me. Today I am stealing an hour at the office, my second visit only, and hence am sending this note in typewritten form. Needless to say. I am delighted to hear that your father has finally consented to allow you to return home. I have just dictated a letter to him telling him how pleased I am at this news. Just why he should have hesitated so long, I of course cannot expect to understand, but it has long seemed to me that both you and Tom should have gone back to China much sooner than this. Now, in view of all that has been happening over there lately, China needs more than ever men of your ability, poise, and idealism, - men who will play the game straight, as few politicians in any country appear to be able to do, who will win the respect of their friends and citizens, and whose clear vision will enable them to offer definite and attainable goals. I can’t help believing that you can and probably will play a big part in the reconstruction and unification of China, something that must be done, and soon, if China is to fill the place she ought to fill in the world, and to receive the justice and respect that would then be clearly her due. What a tragedy Japan has forced upon the world in these recent weeks! If I were younger, I think I should be tempted to line up with the Chinese in the actual fighting itself if I had the chance. Yes, I am getting along finely, and fast recovering the health and strength of earlier days. Indeed, the doctors tell me, and I think they are going to be right, that I shall be better than I have been for some years. They add the proviso, however, that I must go slow for a time yet if this goal is to be attained. And so, difficult as I find it, I am doing little but loaf, satisfying myself with the thought that it will all more than pay in the end. My thoughts will follow you back to your home-land. They will be with you constantly when you are there. Do write me and keep me posted as to your doings and plans. I don’t know of anything that could prove of more interest to me, for I have always considered and shall always consider that you are in a very peculiar way a member of my own home circle. As such, your doings will interest me as do those of my own children. Good luck and every best wish to you. Very sincerely yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/aa6576b9b67f415865ad6cd4c49acb11.jpg 352e699a1499196cbf8fe5b9d397ad47 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, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: Your wonderfully interesting letter of August 19 reached me just in the midst of the opening rush of the new school year. I am not going to try for a minute to answer the letter now as it deserves, for it is just impossible to do so. I do want to tell you, however, that I am delighted at the reaction you have experienced on your return to your native land, and confirming what I have always said to you, I hope with all my heart that you will be able and eager to render a real and lasting service to your country, especially in these days of its great heed, and will find that your American training and experience have not after all been of any real hindrance, but rather a help in the big and appealing work ahead. And so this is just a brief note to let you know that I am thinking of you, tremendously interested in you as always, and hoping and praying that your life may be one of great usefulness to your country and so to the world. Don’t let yourself get into the rut that so many of our returned Chinese students have slumped into through chafing because they have not been able to secure important positions and attained unusual prestige at the very outset of their careers. You will doubtless have a long, hard fight ahead of you, and a man isn’t worth much unless he makes it, and he is worth a lot if he makes it with his head up and his eyes fixed on ultimate victory. Your old football experience at Middlebury ought to help you here, for you learned, as all of us did in our athletic days, that the victory that really left a sweet taste in our mouths was the one attained only after the hardest kind of fighting and the temporary pain of hard knocks. And so all kinds of good luck and every highest success to you. Keep me posted, please, for no one will be more keenly interested in your progress then I, and no one, I think, will be rooting harder for you all the time. 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 September 18, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a35995d12ad67561942f5cf512d284cb.jpg 569173b2a35ddcc8e42c04f08d81c933 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, Tientsin, July 15, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, July 15, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Just a note to welcome you home, though you will doubtless be at home some little time before this letter reached you, and to thank you heartily for your fine letter written in San Francisco on July 7 and received by me today. Certainly the spirit in which you have written warms the cockles of my heart and makes me feel that whatever annoyance or trouble I may have had to undergo at times in connection with my American guardianship has, after all, been more than worth while. Personally, I have taken immense satisfaction in your development and progress during these last few years. I have told you this more than once and am glad to repeat it now. That is one of the chief reasons I have been ready to take up the cudgels for you in your desire to return to your native land. I do hope that after you have passed through the readjustment stage, which I know is going to be a hard and trying one for you, you will settle down and give your country the best that is in you. There is a great work to be done by fellows like you who are able and ready to turn their talents and best efforts unreservedly into the kind of work and service that China requires in these difficult times, and I am counting on you to take the lead. With every best wish to you and never-failing good will, believe me 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 July 15, 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/ae8b52f058a2219c67ee67d0cf128a11.jpg 6679209c96a7ebe5ee383f35c3b6af09 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 8, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 8, 1931 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 June 8, 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 All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Relation A related resource June 8, 1931 Thomas Sun 1294 Yale Station New Haven, Conn. Have just received wire from your father instructing me to permit you to go home. If you accept verdict please consult Mary at once and make arrangements. Advise me also. (Signed) A. E. Stearns Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/156164e26dd754a101001b0f06334f2b.jpg 427fda3431321457231f6f29cbf8c671 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., May 19, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., May 19, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have just received your letter of May 18, and am enclosing herewith a check for two hundred and fifty dollars as requested. If you need more, let me know. Yes, so far as I can now tell, I shall be here on June 1, and certainly I shall be only too glad to see you. If I am not at the office, come to the house, please, or if you prefer and will let me know just when I can find you there, wait for me at the new Phillips Inn. 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 May 19, 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/bb0b27750ff017a21fbefbdf45208dfd.jpg 192595820a2cb1be6c35be781ca45e00 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., April 28, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 28, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I am sorrier than I can tell you for the final decision of your father, and can readily understand your depression at the moment, so clearly revealed in your frank letter to me of April 23. It is difficult for me to know just what to say, except that I admire your courage and your readiness to accept your father's instructions. That means that you have yourself in control and have developed those traits of character that make for stability and, in the end, rugged manhood. Some way, I can’t help believing that eventually you will [illegible] the feel that what seemed most discouraging at the moment proved under the test of time to have been for the best. Anyway, I know you will give the work still ahead of you the best you have in you, so that whatever turns up later that will mean that you will be just so much better prepared to deal with life and its problems and deal with them right. In the meantime, I shall hope to get a chance to talk things over with you and shall be ready always, as I have been in the past, to consult with you and help you just so far as it lies in my power to do so. By the fine record you made at Middlebury, you won my confidence and good will to a degree that would not permit me to do anything less than stand by as a friend, something that I have always tried to do, to be sure, but perhaps at times in the past with more misgivings than I have today. And so continue to keep your courage and your poise, and the best of 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 April 28, 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