122 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d6986e10f058a9297e190428af4522a5.jpg 5941b10db446e515eb0abcd51d94aed2 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 30 Sun Siblings 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Arthur, Mary, Tommie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 6, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Arthur, Mary, Tommie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 6, 1932 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 April 6, 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 April 6, 1932 My dear Dr. Stearns, It was with the keenest disappointment that I learned from Miss Greenwood that you have not as yet fully recovered from your recent operation. I most sincerely hope that the time this letter reaches you, you have regained your lost vigor. The process of recovery must necessarily be a slow one, but I am sure that with your strong constitution there is every chance in the world to go about as usual shortly. The distance between us makes it impossible for me to do anything else except to express my hopes and the assurance that myself and all my children are thinking and wishing for you. The fact that you are not very strong as yet, as Miss Greenwood informed me, prompted to make this note one from the family so as to lessen the amount of energy to be used to read a letter from each one of us. Nevertheless, however short and community-like this letter might be, it does not lessen our hopes for your immediate recovery. With best wishes from all C.Y.Sun Arthur Mary Tommie P.S.-Knowing that you shall busy when you return to Andover, please do not try to answer this letter. Arthur Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/119a5c424162aba989311bf8a2e285b7.jpg fff30fc5daeb80c3d1f52150e41df9e7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b87f8056bba3b6cbad82b7f9fe5f12c0.jpg 4196fe51082565133ed75f942703c99d 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 1920-1924, 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 C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 20, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 20, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I am very glad, to have your letter of the 14th of April and thank you most cordially for all you have done for my children. It is a great pleasure to hear all the kind reports you send about my boys. No doubt your correspondence regarding Arthur’s Tsing Hua scholarship will result in a satisfactory settlement, and I am sorry you have had so much trouble in this matter. To hear the news that Charles is asking to be baptized is such as causes me much rejoicing and I am naturally more pleased than you at this decision Charles has made. The problem about Mary is concerning me very greatly. I had not thought of Mary as being deceitful. I have not mentioned it to you before as I did not want to trouble you, but Mary wrote me sometime ago and told me very frankly of her fault in carrying tales and in disobeying the orders given her. She also told me that she was very sorry and had apologized to Miss Clemons and had tried her best to show by her actions to Miss Clemons how sorry she was. However, I see from your letter that you are so very good, as to watch the situation carefully, and no doubt your wise judgment will find a satisfactory way out of the difficulty. I shall be anxious until I hear from you just what you think should be done. You will fully understand how hard it is at this distance away for me to form a true opinion on Mary, but it seems to me that she is unhappy and that is going to affect her in her studies and in her conduct. I really must apologise for being so much trouble to you about my daughter Mary and I truly hope there may be some happy solution come to, for it would be a great blow to have her finishing years cut off in America. Still, I will wait your fuller report and your reply to this letter before coming to any decision. You are quite right in thinking that there was some mistake as to the assignment of the three mandarin coats; the largest and most elaborately embroidered one was intended for Miss Clemons and the two smaller ones for the girls. I am sorry about the mistake evidently made at the Customs House. I am arranging for a draft for $5,000.00 to be sent you from Tientsin. With kindest regards, Yours sincerely, P.S. Since writing the above, letters have come in from my son, and from their reference to Mary, I am more of a mind to think that she would be happier in a boarding school like Northfield, and, if in your opinion this is a wise step for her, I would agree with you. I am sure we are both looking at this from the same point of view for the lasting benefit of Mary and I want to leave this decision entirely in your hands. I hope to soon have good news from you about Mary. Thank you again for all your interest in her and in my boys. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 February 20, 1923 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/03be6d74f4d51fd2beb1ff3da187b6c1.jpg f4e5da8b2e54e0a86218b0e3fd2098a9 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 1920-1924, 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 C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, June 22, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, June 22, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, Regarding the draft for $5,000.00 (Gold) mentioned to you in my letter of May 18th, I have received official intimation from the Bank that this amount has been transmitted by telegraph through the Irving Bank, Columbia Trust Company, to your credit. Trusting this draft has reached you long before this confirmatory information arrives and that you will credit this sum to the children as usual. With kind regards, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 June 22, 1923 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2e9ded129e0c2aa2d434f76769034a74.jpg d02a0033970fdc2c3a7ae6be73731219 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0998971c9b757bc0baf8b00ca951a448.jpg 9f52a594ad97e3ab59cd6b6970c23af4 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 30 Sun Siblings 1927-1928, 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 C.Y. Sun, Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns August 31, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns August 31, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 August 31, 1927 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 Shanghai, August 31st, 1927 My dear Mr. Stearns: Many thanks for your kind letter dated July the 8th. I am so glad to know that all of my children are getting alone fine. I noticed that Mary has well settled down at Ithaca for her summer school. I hope that will help her a great deal in her college work of next year. I have learned, also that neither Tommie nor Charlie had succeeded in finding a summer job. But anyway their ambions L spirits are very applausible. Arthur and Quincey arrived at Shanghai safely on the 4th great of this month. They had a very nice journey. It was a very great pleasure for me to welcome Arthur back, who at last graduated, from one of the very best engineering schools as M.I.T is rather a hard school to get through. I am very proud of him. Thank you so much for all your kind efforts & guidances towards him without which I am sure he won't be so well of as he is now. I sincerely hope that the rest of my children will come back with the same honor, if not better. Arthur is now busying looking into the things of his line of interests, such as water etc. Most probably he is going to join The Native City Water Works of Tientsin. I am so proud of Quincey who graduated from Bowdoin with high honor and distinction, but his appearance confirmed, me about your constant warning to him for his lack of exercise. He is facing rather a hard problem in scouting a teaching profession, which is very difficult at this time of the year. But undoubtly he will find something in time. As for their travelling expenses, it is only natural that they have appealed for extra remittances. I understand that they bought quite a few books with them as well as some presents for their families and relatives. Shanghai this year has an unusual weather. I thought it won’t be anything unbearable after the summer but I am experiencing another very trying damp heat after suffering a temperature of 120° under shade in Tientsin a month ago. Hope you have had an enjoyable & pleasant summer vacation, and also had a very nice rest. With warmest regards, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun P.S. I had ordered, a remittance of $5000.00 from London to be mailed to you after 1st July, I hope it has reached, ere this. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/acebce81802c5b7d5794d1c5b63ccbb2.jpg a13a331bcc350dc70d95167b78a8a4a4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c2724490aadb874292e5db15aed238f9.jpg e4f69d3a2fc5cbbc77e362da21b92eef 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 30 Sun Siblings 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns August 22, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns August 22, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 August 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 Relation A related resource Shanghai, 22nd, August 1931 My dear Dr.Stearns, Mary and Tommy have arrived here safely after an excellent trip, and although I am still in very poor health I managed to go to Shanghai to meet them. As I saw my two children after ten years separation, my first thought was of how much I owe to you for all your care of my children during these years. I have tried at other times to express gratitude to you, and now I feel even more grateful but cannot find words to express myself as I would like. As I see how the children have grown and developed in character and knowledge, I know, that for what they have attained to, by far the largest part of the credit belongs to you, for you have been so kind to act in the place of both father and mother to them while they were in the States. Whatever balance you have left over on the children’s accounts you might, at your leisure, send me a statement of account, but please do not remit any money here, as I shall be writing you later on, and may have some other use for the money. It was a big effort for me to take the journey to Shanghai, for I am very weak through a severe nervous breakdown. Mary hopes to go to Peking soon, and will get in touch with the P.U.M.C. there to whom she has a letter of introduction from the Dean of the the Yale Nursing College. As to Tommy, nothing has yet been settled on, but he is rapidly regaining his own language and is full of zeal to get in touch with people and things in his native land. We are all leaving for Tientsin in a day or two, and Mary and Tommy are looking forward to being home once again. Again expressing my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to you for your very very many kindness which I deeply appreciate, And with best wishes and kindest regards, I remain, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e5cfaf3850852aa755452f61bf65d0e.jpg 2619c7bfdc4b83f36dff7c5cfe80afe6 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ad1eaad72ca97bbf34f4753cf4a5cea3.jpg 6fc6244c5c358e44ac84dd95ff4a055f 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns June 11, 1929 (mentions Tong Shao Yi) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns June 11, 1929 (mentions Tong Shao Yi) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 June 11, 1929 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 My dear Dr. Stearns: I am sending you to-day a night letter by radio, reading as follows; Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, Please tell Charlie wait America arrival my letter, bringing him good news. Sun May I confide to you confidentially the reason that led me to sending you this wireless message? Dr. Tong Shao Yi our veteran statesmen[sic] and ex-Premier, is soon to come to the States on a special mission. He and I have been lifelong friends. He has kindly consented to allow Charlie to be attached to his mission, I thought that such an opportunity does not come often. The experience that he will receive, will be the most invaluable. While I cannot forecast how long the mission will remain in America, I am sure that it will not delay Charlie's return home indefinitely. This appointment may open for Charlie a way to a fine career. Upon receipt of your kind letter of April 24th and my reply to you on the 7th Inst, I have decided to let Charlie return to China. But, upon receiving this appointment for Charlie, I am sure that you will approve of the change, resulting in my dispatching the night letter. Please give Charlie sum of money for his expenses during the summer and also such money for his outfit etc. after consulting with certain member of the mission, I am sending a letter to Charlie to your care I would feel greatly it if you will kindly forward to him. With kindest regards, Yours ever gratefully C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/64d8429277078f5af398b05a3b5de1d2.jpg 4898a43b9ba747f40a03c2f2b72f8339 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns June 18, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns June 18, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 June 18, 1929 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 My dear Dr. Stearns, Your kind letter of May 21st. just came to me while I was going on board of my steamer for Tientsin. I thank you most heartily for all what you have advised me regarding Charlie. I sincerely trust that the recent arrangement will satisfy him. It is most gratifying to read your good news of Mary's progress and the latest report you have recieved [sic] stating some definite improvement in recent months. Kindly excuse me for this brief note, because I have to hurry for the ship. I thank you again, with best regards from, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ef65098867a9e3a84a7b6a7f555ef9d.jpg 2991b3ebdb7d12ee2b8ca86a0f71be6b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/30edefb5788bd34ee0da9e8679f935ef.jpg 419ef8edac216cb84575e9282af76e0b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a1342bda9958dabfd03275338fbb51c.jpg 5a1e16d88e08eadf5ad0728ed0ad10d4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5d86e4a27990c02f69b368e3626042be.jpg 2a3809b3d7c3b0e040d10f213aabaa58 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 30 Sun Siblings 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 May 27, 1930 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 Shanghai, 27th. May 1930 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. U.S.A My dear Dr. Stearns, Your most kind and interesting letter of April 7 and 21 reached me, and I most heartily thank you for going so very fully, and with so much sympathy, into the problems relating to the educating of my children. I have just come to Shanghai for a much needed rest and change after a very sad and trying time at home for many months back. After a long spell of illness, with one sickness upon the top of another, I lost my 3rd daughter. We had the very best attention for her including night and day nurses, but she wished me near her most of the time. The constant attention required of me when I was in poor health myself, and the fact that I was the only member of the family that knew there was no hope for my daughter's recovery, just wore me down, and I had no time, or even thought, for anything else. This is the reason I did not feel able to even try to meet Dean Goodrich. It was not Mary’s fault, for she did write me that the Dean was coming to China, but I was entirely taken up with my sick daughter to the exclusion of every other thing, indeed I quite forgot all about Mary’s letter. I am sure you will understand, and if you get a chance to explain to Dean Goodrich, please tender his my apologies, I very much regret that the special circumstances prevented me from making arrangements to meet him. And it would be a favor if nothing was said to Mary or Tommy. It is of course possible that the news of my daughter’s death will filter through to them, but my thought opportunity for him to do some hard work in preparation for his coming course at Yale. I have given due consideration to your very kind and thoughtful words about Tommy’s popularity, with the danger of his taking on so much of American ideas & ways so as to possibly hamper his future readjustment to the life and atmosphere in China. A father naturally appreciates very very much all the kind things you tell me of the large place Tommy has made for himself in Middlebury College, but he will soon be thinking of leaving all his kind friends there and meeting the new conditions among strangers at Yale. This will be a new angle in mixing with men and should work out for good. Now, as to your suggestion that I might think over the possibility of Tommy taking a year at home in China before pressing on with his further studies in America. From a practical point of view, I do not think it feasible, for the pull of family-ties, and probably his own disinclination to tackle his further studies after a year's break, would, I am sure, mean the end of his ever going back to America. And, after all, will his waiting for another year or so in America to undertake his specialized studies make much difference to the question of his readjustment to his life and work in China? Tommy is young enough to successfully face this question after his Yale course of special study. All things considered, I feel he should carry on from Middlebury to his Yale course and attain to proficiency in the work he is going to specialize in on his return home. I trust my viewpoint on this meets with your acceptance, for like you, I have tried to look at the problem all round, keeping in mind particularly Tommy’s future when he sets out to find his feet in China. I thank you for your statements of account for Mary & Tommy and covering the period from October 8, 1929 to April 21, 1930. I am very glad to hear that you think the necessary repairs can be made to the blackwood-stand. Please have this done at my expense, and I shall be glad to hear from you that the repairs have been done in entirely satisfactory manner. It is not easy for me to express my gratutude, as I would like, for these two letters of yours, so clear and asympathetic and yet well covering the whole ground. I always feel that I never succeed in expressing what my heart feels of very grateful thanks for your large personal interest in my children. With kindest regards and most cordial good wishes, I am, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5548f25373e74001b5847aff321c60cc.jpg 9222f0c8b9c64b265e290012f1e24a40 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns November 6, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns November 6, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 November 6, 1929 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 My dear Dr. Stearns, I appreciate very much your good letter of the 30th September and am proud that Charlie has earned such high praise from you. In my letter to you of the 23rd. September I asked you to be so kind as to give Charlie a sum in sterling for use in London, in addition to paying his passage to London. Now I have just received your accounts for my three children for the period October 1928 to October 1929 together with a covering-letter dated 8th October from your secretary. I see that Charlie’s account shows a credit balance of over four thousand dollars. After paying his passage to London please be so good as to give Charlie a sterling draft in round figures approximately the amount standing to his credit after paying expenses up to the time he leaves America. With my best wishes and continued appreciation of your kindness, I remain, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/099b7c925d358a02dca4b42c339e6048.jpg 6b157bda6c93bb1eda2e29260d9228a9 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/847bf14ae415487c8dd3e5cab9ff191c.jpg 620d18541014788da250d4b7b3463cf5 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns September 23, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns September 23, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 September 23, 1929 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 My dear Dr. Stearns, My telegram to you about Charlie's appointment to our London Legation would confirm what I wrote in my last letter to you. He is very lucky to get this position in liue [sic]with his wishes and training and at such an early stage when really his preparation work for this position is not as far advanced as he himself would like it to be. So as not to waste his time and also to get in as much more helpful study as possible, I wish him to continue at Columbia until Dr. Sze sends for him. As I think I mentioned this will be about Christmas, but he will get orders direct from Dr. Sze as to the time he wants him in London. In my last letter I asked you to be so kind as to provide Charlie with the necessary funds when he leaves for London and if you have a good credit balance you might give him a sum in Sterling (in addition to his passage-money) enough for his use for expenses etc. when he gets to London. In this great opportunity that has come to Charlie I trust he will take advantage of it, and any further counsel and wise advice you can give him will be appreciated by me and should prove of added help as he steps out into his new venture and profession. With regard to Tommy he seems to be tackling his study at Middlebury with energy and zeal and I am hoping he continues to make progress in his special line of Govern¬ment administration. Tommy mentions the possibility of Syracuse after he graduates from Middlebury, but it is just a passing mention, and he says you had spoken of Harvard which seems to me much better. Tommy is not inclined to Columbia as he says there are too many distractions on account of its being near a big center of population. However, my own opinion strongly favors Harvard or a University of a similar kind. Mary’s letters to me are of the most pleasant nature. She speaks of liking her work, and there is hardly a complaint of any kind, all of which points to her being interested in her work and enjoying it. So all three of my children appear to be getting along nicely and that they are doing so well is the result of all the care and thought you have so freely given to them and for which I can never thank you enough. With best wishes, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns