287 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/419927566d38e0b4bc72caa2abc748f7.jpg c3918b9b9c769f68ece855c3cef4ecec 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, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 4, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, December 4, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns: I thank you for your letter of the 12th.Septr. and for your most excellent care of the children during the holiday time. Charlie, Tom and Mary under your direct care, and Arthur at the Tec. camp all seem to have had a fine summer holiday; and they are lucky ones for their father was grinding away through the heat here without a holiday at all. Arthur mentioned in a recent letter that he had been to Phillips for examination for a diploma, but he seems to have failed whereat I am sorry. With regard to the Tsing-Hua scholarship for Arthur, I hope the scholarship money has been sent to you as previously arranged for. I am very glad that Mary is making better and steadier progress. If I remember rightly she was weak in her English, but now that she is shaping better it might be possible for her to hold her own in her English work, and in her other work at Northfield. I think she would be very happy to go there if that could be arranged and met with your approval. Charlie mentions that he had dropped Latin- where he has dropped it he does not say, but he does mention that he finds the work beyond him. However I had not heard him complain before of this subject,; and I think he has been doing this study for some time. Tom seems to have taken to music and is very proud of his election to sing in the church choir. If he really has any gift for this, do you think he ought to take music lessons? You will be able by this time to know if he would profit from such lessons. I am very pleased that he has taken to the church choir and is interested in the whole service and work of the church. I trust the children continue to keep in good health and spirits. I am much indebted to you for your most excellent care of them and for all the trouble you have taken. With best wishes for a very happy New Year, I remain, Yours sincerely, C.Y.Sun 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 December 4, 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/e5d7b6bbcfc4d7c7b84c72922e935518.jpg d3d44d69a7c39e5c8bd03031f5d952ef 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 Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 7, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, December 7, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: I have just been advised by the local bank of the receipt from you of the sum of $5,000, which I am crediting, according to the usual custom, to Arthur, Charles, Thomas, Mary, and Quincey Sheh,-$1,000. to each account. I sent you only several days ago statements covering the expenditures to the middle of November, and I trust that these will reach you safely. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 December 7, 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/db07052a3aad0dbb9e870c604af7622b.jpg 932ec5a4b1dd0d8d12f8c8ed2f8d2229 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0162f0fb6c25a4ac4cef1dc4024ddd64.jpg 5ba19031667711437b3ef82f9fc7ae81 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 Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. , December 12, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. , December 12, 1923 Relation A related resource December 12, 1923 Dr. Alfred Sze Chinese Legation Washington, D. C. Dear Dr. Sze: Mary Sun has shown me your letter with its very kind and attractive invitation to her and her two brothers to pass the holidays with you in Washington. I am heartily in sympathy with the plan, but am writing merely to inquire about one or two details which involve possible complications here. I hope you will be perfectly frank with me in your answers. It has been my custom for a number of years to have all of the Chinese students in this vicinity including the several of my own household, at our home for Christmas Day. Other boys who happen to be left over in town are regularly invited in for the Christmas tree and attendant celebration. In making my plans this year I merely wish to know what to count on. You refer in your letter to Mary and her two brothers, and I assume that you mean the two younger boys, Charlie and Thomas, who are still here in school and living in my house. The oldest brother, Arthur, who is a student at Boston Tech, is planning to pass the holidays with us and I am wondering; whether this is understood, for I think the other children are a bit embarrassed at the idea of accepting the invitation and leaving their oldest brother behind. Quincy Sheh, now at Bowdoin College, has also written that he will be our guest for the holidays, and as he came, and has been ever since in intimate contact, with the Suns, I am sure that he, too, might wish to change his plans if he knew of their contemplated absence. I am wondering whether visit perhaps just after Christmas Day would answer the purpose just as well. I do not wish to press this point at all, for I am anxious to do only what will prove just and most enjoyable for the children themselves, and I am sure that the Washington visit, whatever the dates involved, will be a most profitable one to them and one which they should certainly make. If it can be made, however, without depriving them of the chance to enjoy a part of the vacation here with their friends, I am inclined to think that it will be a little more acceptable all around, though as I intimated above, I would not for the world offer a suggestion, oven, that does not fit in fully with your plans and me wholly with your wishes. Trusting that you will be as frank in your reply as I have been in my inquiries, believe me with personal regards. 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 December 12, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1dacd96fcfed3c099074cd86a7aaf984.jpg c782a4e98f796f8b3a89405451c2e7c8 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 Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 14, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 14, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns, I have just received your letter of December 12th. I am sorry to say it was due entirely to my bad memory when I wrote to Mary Sun that I said two of her brothers. At the moment I thought there was only one brother at Andover besides Arthur in Boston. I shall be glad to have all three brothers come and also have Quincey Sheh if he does not mind a little crowding. One girl at Elmira College and two boys at Cook Academy for whom I act as guardian are coming to spend their Christmas with us. I have also invited Mr. M.T. Liang’s daughter and son to come and they have accepted my invitation. As to Mary Sun and her three brothers and Quincey Sheh, please tell them that they may come when they like and stay as long as they like. I want them to feel perfectly free to accept or decline. Mr. Sun was a very intimate friend of my wife’s father and besides, I know him myself personally very well. Our wish is to do everything we can for his children, so during any of the holidays if they wish to come to us just let us know. Should I find that my house is full with other guests I will let them know. I hope I have made the situation quite clear to you. They can come any day after Christmas or they can come for Easter. We shall be glad to have them anytime and always. With warm personal regards and with compliments of the Season, Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sao-Ke Alfred Sze 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 14, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/85dcf5979d711bf3156772374a1dfddf.jpg fa4fa22fd50a72937bf399f7a79b6f7b 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 Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. December 19, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: Thank you for your prompt and more than satisfactory reply to my letter of recent date. I am making plans for the Suns to leave for Washington the day after Christmas and I hope that the oldest brother, now in Cambridge, and Quincey Sheh, who is due back from Bowdoin shortly, will join the party. Of course I can't speak for them finally until I have learned their decision. With holiday greetings, believe me 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 December 19, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f1235e936cc6b6f816a18d18757c288f.jpg 6df6870741ad4c77461beaf099c32b31 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 Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 29, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C., to Alfred E. Stearns, December 29, 1923 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles 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 December 29, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f9d4b50c3c4a1cd9f7ef3cc3216ee54.jpg d5c2d18fa45c4dbea5ef5dd9e701eec8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e32316bb3bc42c5b0de709c7f5df04d.jpg a6252ff09deaaefdab169bb5a410e593 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 Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 10, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 10, 1924 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: I have your very interesting and friendly letter of December 4th, and beg to thank you for the sentiments contained therein. The children are all in excellent health, I am glad to say. Arthur was with us for a few hours during the Christmas holidays, but went to New York for a visit at the time that Charles, Tom and Mary went to Washington in response to an invitation from Dr. Sze, your Minister to this country, to visit him at the legation. We celebrated the Christmas holiday itself together at Andover with several other boys as our guests, and then the party broke up for the rest of the vacation period. I am sure that the trip must have been very profitable to the children, though from their own reports I am afraid they did not see quite so ranch of our capitol city as I had hoped they would. The weather was in part to blame. I allowed Charlie to drop Latin at the beginning of the year, for he found the work extremely difficult and the time and effort given to it were apparently undermining his work in other subjects. It is getting to be a question in my mind whether the boy is perhaps a bit over-conscientious in his studies, as he rather unwittingly admitted to me recently that his head seemed to get tired rather easily. I shall watch the situation carefully this term and see that steps are promptly taken to lighten the load if it proves that he is attempting a bit too much. Tom has begun work on the banjo and mandolin, which if successful will give him a chance to play in the school orchestra, something that he is very desirous of doing. If he shows sufficient talent he can of course take up later sane other instrument that is likely to be of more permanent and genuine value. May I take this opportunity to thank you most heartily for your overgenerous Christmas gift. I have been greatly embarrassed by the receipt of anything so elaborate, realizing its value and the fact that it is certainly not deserved. My appreciation, however, of the exceptionally generous and friendly spirit which has prompted the gift is very deep and sincere, and my thanks are from the heart. In this connection may I make a suggestion, which I trust will not give offence, but will be fully understood by you, and that is that any gifts in the future - if there are such - be limited to trifles. After all it is the spirit which accompanies the gift which sets its chief value, and I have been greatly embarrassed for the past two years by two factors in the situation; first, the large duties I have had to pay on gifts of this kind, and which have amounted in toto to much more than what I have been accustomed with my limited means to invest at Christmas time for all the members of my family circle together; and, secondly, a seeming misconception on the part of the children as to the nature and purpose of the gifts in question. I have been greatly distressed on one or two occasions, as has Miss Clemons, to learn that the children have intimated to some of their friends that some of the gifts in question, at least, were of values far in excess of those recorded on the actual inventories, and that some of these , too, were prompted by actual requests or insinuations on our part. As you doubtless know, on one or two occasions and in response to very definite requests on the part of my good friends in China, to the effect that they would be glad at any time to make small purchases for me there should I desire, we have placed orders, so to speak, but with the definite purpose of settling for the amounts involved by crediting the sums in question to Mary’s account. I am sure that the situation has been fully appreciated by you and others in China, but it very evidently has not been by the children, and since it throws us open to even the possibility of misconception on their part, I am very sure that it will be better for all concerned to have the gifts discontinued entirely. As you of course understand, the arrangements at the house have to be made, from necessity on my part, on a business basis, and I have attempted to the very best of my ability to figure the expenses of each of the children on an exact pro rata basis, so that I should neither gain nor lose materially by their presence in the house. For this reason also it would seem best to discontinue the presents in question. I hope most sincerely that you will not take offence at anything I have said above. It is my desire to be perfectly frank with you, just as I would wish you to be with me, and it is with no lessening of appreciation of the generous and friendly spirit which has always characterized your dealings with me that I feel prompted to make the above suggestions. I believe that their adoption would perhaps save us the possibility at least of further embarrassment, something which cannot wholly be avoided in view of the seeming inability of the children themselves to appreciate the situation and the exacting duties imposed by our government here on importations of this kind. I am sending you this week a slight token of my friendship and esteem, which I hope will reach you during the New Year's season and will prove not unwelcome. With friendliest regards and heartiest good wishes for the New Year, believe me, Always sincerely yours , Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 10, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cb252eaacd2156f836a04548066c6970.jpg a1c38ef59b6716001afe98c023ec8af9 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/. Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your letter of September 1 has just reached me and I am filing with your accounts, your statements of expenses to date. As soon as I return to Andover, which will be within the next day or two, I will send you another check and also forward a check to the college for the $350 that will be due on your tuition for this year. I like emmensely [sic] your suggestion of taking a nurses course at Yale. Frankly, both Miss Clemons and I have always approved of that desire of yours to study to be a nurse, and I shall only be to glad, therefore, to use what influence I can with your father to persuade him that this is not only one of the most honorable professions, but one for which you seem well adapted and in which you could render your country real service. The Yale school is one of the best, and a degree from it would be well worth while. With all best wishes, believe me. Always Sincerely yours, 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 July-December 1927, 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, September 6, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, September 6, 1927 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 6, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/547392bdd0d41e7fba41d4b02410df16.jpg 353ccb725c3da7ab7571837592627bc8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cd3f14f493a76bb6ce81d251b8de7357.jpg 9f7e693be3a0f032a1a4615e2598fd79 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0e9f15a4904fe59d0e46d0555703bd0b.jpg a31e6a609bca6cca8167d1fd73be230e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/94605e97721e9bc7c229b3dddbd74d86.jpg 54ba27703ea1e78a0852c5d21dadbac8 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 July-December 1927, 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, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 1, 1927 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 September 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/73292628bfcfd7b87f0dd4d3625fe1d2.jpg 69dfe6406e38bce515883db2dd1078ee https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2c2b0646d39be598d9306f96effaff40.jpg 99e54a5b78751e6f5fd433eb0216ffaa 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 July-December 1927, 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 Postcard from Charles Sun, New York City, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 2, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Postcard from Charles Sun, New York City, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 2, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles 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 2, 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 postcard Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns