215 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/56b98ceccb61e9f8dd1b3f6968a2c36e.jpg fa2468acb735beb8da4b097704eeee87 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 28 Folder 2 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, July 15, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, July 15, 1927 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Received letter from son, stating son has a renewed interest in academics in order to play sports. Asked what is required for son to complete high school. Asks if advisable to learn dentistry. Want son to learn profession that doesn't require much capital and can be practiced anywhere. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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, 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 Tientsin, China, July 15 My dear Mr. Stearns, I have just receiver a letter from my son, K. Y. Tu and the letter indicates that recently he has been taking greater interest in his studies owing to his desire to participate in athletic activities and the wise regulation of the school requiring the students to maintain a comparatively high scholarship before they would be allowed to do so. This is an encouraging news and I must thank you sincerely for your continuous and successful efforts to make him a good student. I shall be obliged if you will kindly drop me a few lines when you are not very busy as to the time still required to complete his high school courses. My idea is to let him learn to be a dentist as soon as he has graduated from high school. Would it be advisable for him to study dentistry in a school or learn it in an office even before he has finished his high school courses? 1 believe that dentistry is one of the independent vocations and I like my son to acquire a profession which does not require much capital and can be practiced in any place and any circumstances. Again I want to thank you for the great and sustaining interest you have taken in my boy and I am sure he will also feel grateful to you for what you have been doing for him in his mature age when he goes out to the world to labor for a living. I herewith enclose copy of a letter of mine to my boy which may interest you. Yours sincerely. Mr. Alfred Z. Stearns, Philip’s Academy, Andover, Mass. U. 3. A. Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b7470ad4e64701dee9cfeaee5916968b.jpg 4352296bb88d66e9065d91ca06f3d37f 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 28 Folder 2 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to K.Y. Tu, July 15, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to K.Y. Tu, July 15, 1927 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to his son, K.Y. Tu. Encouraged with progress in studies. Believes athletics and and studies should go together. Stresses son to be economical. States son should learn to write simple but gramatically correct English. Thanks son for reports and photograph Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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, 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 Tientsin, July 15th. 1927 My dear boy, Your letter of May 20th has been received and I am happy to learn that you have made progress in your studies and that your desire to participate in athletics has provided to you the incentive to study hard, I hope you will continue your good work in class rooms while you try to distinguish yourself in the athletic fields. Sports and studies should go together, for if you have the physics of a titan and are empty in your head you would not cut any figure in this struggling world of keen competition; on the other hand, if you have become a great scholar and acquired the bulk of human knowledge but are poor in health and cannot stand the strain and stress of modern society, you would not go very far in your life career. I therefore share your enthusiasm for sports, but I hope you will not neglect your studies. Another thing which I want to impress upon your mind is that you should learn to be economical, As you know, I am not a wealthy man, as China goes through this terrible crisis and the civil strife which is distressing her may be a prolonged one, it is wise for all of us to be thrifty. In your school you should therefore learn not to waste money and make good use of it. I have noticed some improvement in your English, but you should endeavor to learn to write simple but grammatically correct English, In closing, I want to thank you for the report card of your last quarter's studies and also a photograph of yourself in frame, please let me hear from you again. With love, Your loving father, Admiral H.K. Tu K.Y. Tu https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d2dba4188b20428f548b40e6557828e2.jpg 515ce9660870e2fbea43706c94901d08 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0a7ee504c8fddc45a23a159e9034ff00.jpg 92530613bb5d7560a52474b1aa0ab71a 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 28 Folder 2 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to Dr. A.E. Stearns, February 23, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to Dr. A.E. Stearns, February 23, 1927 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Hopes Christmas gift arrived. Happy to hear son learned some responsibility and is living within means. Discuss current events in China. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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 23, 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 Admiralty, Peking, China Dr.A.E.Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover,Mass.,U.S.A. My dear Dr.Stearns, Your letter dated Jan.17th has just reached me and I am glad to hear from you. I hope that when this note reaches you, the box sent through the American Express Co., would have been delivered to you safely. Whatever I have sent during Xmas time is but a slight token of my appreciation of your kindness and the trouble you have taken on behalf of my boy. It is, indeed, gratifying to learn that due to your untiring effort and convincing advice that my boy has acquired a sense of responsibility and attempted to live within the limits of his expenses. From your letter I gether that he has not made much progress in his studies. Should you see any way to encourage him to cultivate that habit of earnestness, without which it would be difficult to acquire any knowledge seriously, I would feel-most indebted to you. With reference to general state of affairs in this country, civil strife seems to have, momentarily, extended in area and in complication. However, with the renouncing of unjustly acquired rights on the part of the friendly powers and China’s freeing herself from her past economic trammels, it would not be long before China emerges once more a rejuvenated and united nation from her present transient troubles as she had done centuries ago. With her unlimited manpower and vast resources China can yet become Dr.Stearns. One of the most useful nations of the world, provided that the right kind of cooperative gesture and moral support is given by the other powers especially in her time of need and distress. Thanking you for your kind letter and hoping to hear from you again soon. Very sincerely yours, Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6ee688b6019a3e1d1c15737ca5580373.jpg c79705f882d4fd1c094c390f7961ea45 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6f737ff8e3f618b860694967d34e9e70.jpg a868a71fd33cce7d81fedb3ad3d76d5f 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 28 Folder 2 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, December 28, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, December 28, 1926 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Is happy the care Stearns provides his son. Hopes son will learn self-reliance. Asks Stearns to encourage son to write more, possibly 2 letters a month. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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 December 28, 1926 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 Tientsin, China, December 28.1926. Mr. Alfred E. Steams, Phillips Academy. Andover, Massachusetts, U. S. A. My dear Mr. Stearns. I have received your letter of November 15th and what to thank you most sincerely for the parental interest you have been taking in my son. I am happy to learn that my son has been doing much better this year along the lines mentioned in your last letter. I am naturally very grateful to you and also to the head of his school who has promised full co-operation in the efforts to make the boy realize the value of money and of education. I feel certain that my boy will highly appreciate the real friendship you have shown to him, the good advice you have given and the guidance you have been exercising over him when he has to bump himself against the world irrespective of what sentiment he may now entertain towards you. I am always interested in whatever reports you may take the trouble of sending regarding my boy and hope that you will continue doing your best for him. Be kind enough to impress upon him the necessity to learn self-reliance and the inadvisability of depending too much upon his father especially at a time like the present when there is so much vicissitude in the world. My son does not write to me often. I shall be obliged if you will ask him to let me hear from him now and then. Distance between us ought not stand in the way of knowing each other’s thoughts end aspirations, if he can cultivate a habit to write me two letters a month, it will be of great benefit to himself as well as it would tend to remove my anxiety about him. Thanking you again for the valuable service you have been rendering to my boy and hoping that I may hear from you again. With greetings of the season. Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns K.Y. Tu https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1a8e446f47508a87aa4408f1eaa9f3ee.jpg 5528a71acff3ef0cfb40a4b75ca10a6d 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 28 Folder 3 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to Mr. & Mrs. Stearns, November 26, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to Mr. & Mrs. Stearns, November 26, 1924 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to the Stearns. Thanks them for looking after his son. Sent 600 American gold. Asks to keep costs low and scrutinize usage. Sent a gift as thanks. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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 26, 1924 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 Mr.&Mrs. Stearns, Not knowing how to thank you for your ever kindness in looking after my son’s welfare and education, I can only assure myself that I have true friends in the great Republic of America and for this friendship they are having extra troubles and burden, in looking after a son of their friend, who feels he is greatly honored in person and deeply thankful in heart. I am remitting you by Commercial Bank the sum of 600.00 American gold (six hundred A. gold) which I trust will reach you safely in due time, I desire to repeat again that you be kind enough to strickly scrutinize his usage, to the limit of absolute necessities, as luxuries are bad for a boy, and besides we are having hard times in China unless unity and pease is restored. I take this opportunity to forward you, by parcel post as a small token, which is made of Foo-chow Lacquer, the image of the God of Happiness, for my sincere gratitude, and would be ever so glad to here from you at any time. With kind regards and best compliments of the season. From, Yours very sincerely Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a58973fcdae7afe8598180da5c83ecec.jpg ce6da9d19d28532b46bcc5b00a1893dd https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7f8b379c78996b9658ea05af2028b169.jpg 359f00beeb9e1207ee375c330a6dca51 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 28 Folder 3 Tu, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Commander H.K. Tu, January 5, 1925 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Commander H.K. Tu, January 5, 1925 Description An account of the resource Typed letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to Commander H.K. Tu. Acknowledges receipt of check for son. Attempting to sort out son's financial situation. States son accumulated bills almost equal to check. Paid most pressing such as tuition and board. Believes son would do better in another school, as lack of English made advancement at Andover impossible. Explains placement in smaller school will work better than the current arrangment of a tutor. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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, 1925 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 Commander H.K.Tu Admiralty House Nanking, China My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your most friendly and courteous letter of November 26. With it comes your check for 600.00 in behalf of your boy. This amount I have deposited to the boy’s account am endeavoring now, as requested by you, to straighten out his financial affairs and induce him to meet the situation in a business-like way and with the determination to limit all expenditures to absolute necessities. This I hope to accomplish in due season. The boy has been on a very awkward position because of lack of funds, and I find that he has already contracted bills, largely for tuition, board, and room, amounting,as nearly as I can figure, to almost the sum of your remittance. This means that he will have very little to go on for the next few months and without further remissions from home will have to run up additional bills, something which none of us likes to contemplate. I am paying at the moment those bills which have been longest overdue and seem most pressing, such as board, tuition, etc., and will pay the others so far as the funds permit. I shall hope to enclose with this letter a brief statement showing the extent and nature of disbursement to date. It is my strong conviction that the boy would do much better for the balance of the year to enter some school rather than to attempt to go on as he has been doing here. As ha has doubtless advised you, his lack of English made it impossible for him to continue the Phillips Academy connection for he couldd make no progress in his classes with us owing to this deficiency. His case is very similar to the cases of many Chinese boys we have had to recent years. Always under such circumstances these boys have been advised to invest their first year in America in a small school, where they could place all the emphasis on the English language and receive special and personal guidance in their work. This is practically impossible in a school as large as ours. Such a plan your son vigorously objected to for some reason, and he has consequently been living here in town and taking special instruction with a most reliable man, for many years principal of the high school at Groton, Mass., and during the war a regular instructor on our own force. The arrangement is a good one in many ways, but I can’t help feeling that the atmosphere and regular environment of a regular school would be better. I appreciate your thoughtfulness in sending me as a token of your friendship the image of the God of Happiness to which you refer. The gift has not yet arrived, but I am sure that I shall value it most highly when it does come, both for itself and for the good will which lies behind it. Trusting that the New Year may bring you health, prosperity, and happiness in fullest measure, believe me Very sincerely yours Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c79c1215ff2c9623b1e81a8de699137e.jpg 9ba8876114997b9a9fe64b4cb4f2a5be 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 28 Folder 3 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 16, 1925 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 16, 1925 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Agrees to Stearns suggestion to place son in a school to better focus on English. Hopes son will attend lectures on dental surgery. Will send additional $600. Provides new address. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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 16, 1925 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 687 Connaught Road, Shanghai, China February 16th, 1925 Mr. Alfred A. Sterns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., U.S.A. Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the January 5th, 1925, and to thank you for all your kindness in attending to the affairs of my boy. I am very agreeable to your suggestions regarding to his entering some school to better his English, which I must again trouble you to place it at your disposal. In case and if you think possible, I desire him to attend lectures on dentical surgeon, but of course, he must first get enough English before entering any special course. Again I am remitting you the sum of $600 which you will kindly superintend his use as requested in my previous letter. Regarding myself I regret to say, matters in China are not as one wish it, so I have now retired and have taken a residence at Ko. 687 Connaught Road, Shanghai, in future please address your letters to the above address. With sincere thanks and best regards to your good self. Very sincerely yours, Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns K.Y. Tu https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ab817b5f253036e2e298f1049c8d9ca1.jpg 52ddf7b7034dac7131c6026893540c81 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 28 Folder 3 Tu, 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 Note from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 16, 1925 Subject The topic of the resource Note from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 16, 1925 Description An account of the resource Note sent from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Forwarded $600 through bank. Asks for acknowledgement of receipt. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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 16, 1925 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 687 Connaught Road, Shanghai, China February 16th, 1925. Mr. Alfred L. Sterns, Principal, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., U. S. A, Dear sir, Besides mailing you by post a reply of yours of the 5th January, I am now forwarding you through this Bank the sum of six hundred American Dollars, which sum when received kindly acknowledge. Again thanking you for all your kindness. I am, Very sincerely yours, $600.00 Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2b6df917439fb9ec6881d74415874c4f.jpg e8fab101814040df008b7c0970031599 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fecfe2c7a95888a1e51bedc152df6791.jpg 487795244e59744b436cef4ecf4a058f 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 28 Folder 3 Tu, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to K.Y. Tu, March 17, 1925 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to K.Y. Tu, March 17, 1925 Description An account of the resource Typed note sent from Dr. Alfred E. Stearns to K.Y Tu, to be forward to father, H.K. Tu. Acknowledges receipt of money. Received gift. Thanks Tu for photograph. Enclosed current copy of account. States son has worked to keep expenses in bounds. Will try to make current checks last. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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, 1925 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 Mr. K.Y.Tu 687 Connaught Road Shanghai, China My dear Mr. Tu: Your two letters of February 16, in one of which I find enlosed a check for $600.00 to be credited to your boy’s account, have been duly received. I am depositing the money to the account in question and have notified your son of its arrival. Only yesterday your boy came to my house, bringing with him the unique and most interesting gift which you were so generous and friendly as to send me. I am immensely grateful to you, and I can assure you that, outside of its usual qualities, the gift itself will always claim a special interest because of the thoughtful and friendly spirit which promoted it. Deeply as I appreciate this taken of your friendship, however, I do hope that you will understand that my interest in your boy, and indeed in my other Chinese friends, calls for no reimbursement of a material kind. I welcome the privilege that is given to me to help these promising young fellows in the far-away land and have enjoyed myself keenly in ministering to their needs, so far as it was in my power to do so. The pleasure I derive from these friendly and interesting contacts is reward enough and more. May I also thank you and heartily, for the photograph of yourself which your boy brought to me yesterday and which I have now added to the constantly growing collection of pictures of good friends who now are scattered throughout and whom I still dare hope I may some day meet in person again or for the first time. As your boy has found it necessary to draw ahead some on funds which I have borrowed in his behalf, and in anticipation of the arrival of your check, I am enclosing a copy of his account to date that you may see just where he stands and for what the money has been spent. Barring, perhaps, the radio apparatus sent back to his home, he seems to me to have striven hard to keep his expenses within bounds. As you doubtless know, living costs in America today are abnormally and absurdly high. Ever since the war, we have been expecting to see prices tumble, but if anything, the necessaries of life seem to have advanced a bit. I will make the $600.00, or rather the balance that is left after settling the account to date, last as long as I can, but I am afraid that it will not carry the youngster for very long. Again thanking you for your exceptional friendliness and with kindest regards, believe me Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns K.Y. Tu https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/74e1d0c5b70e37c42d8f47f247765b7e.jpg fadf4815553d06fe0857dde4dc19dd83 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 28 Folder 3 Tu, 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 H.K. Tu to A.E. Stearns, March 16, 1925 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from H.K. Tu to A.E. Stearns, March 16, 1925 Description An account of the resource Typed letter sent from H.K. Tu to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Explains increase in cost living is also in China. Estimated the $600 sent will last 3-4 months. Glad to know son is working hard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.K. Tu 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 16, 1925 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 No. 687 Kong Lok Li Connaught Road, Shanghai, 16th, March, 1925. A E. Stearns, Esq* Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. U.S.A My dear Mr. Stearns, I have to thank you for your letter of the 5th, February and also for the troubles taken of enclosing the statement of disbursements to date, I have full confidence in you, thereby your statement is sufficient without the receipts. It is not only in America alone, the enormous increase of living is felt here in China, a man earning a hundred dollars a month some years ago, could do well, but now he can hardly stand on his feet. On the first part of February this year I remitted you $600. that sum ought to last him 3 or 4 months, as I base my calculation on tutoring, room and board, and monthly allowances, which would leave an ample margin for other necessities.I trust you will not allow him to contract new debts or made loans, without the express permission from you, this will avoid the running up of bills and borrowing. I am glad to hear that he is working hard to meet the requirements for the school and eager to do the right things you order him, again I am exceedingly thankful to you for your kindness in looking after him, who had given you so much extra troubles. With best wishes and kind regards from Yours most sincerely, Admiral H.K. Tu Dr. Alfred E. Stearns