37 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/069d4f7577578216bc01fc379ac5e713.jpg 4d7680dca0839f8bf9e70db1b21a9fc6 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 10, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 10, 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 May 10, 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 May 10, 1933 Mr, C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin. China My dear Mr. Sun Let me thank you, and heartily, for your friendly letter of April 6, which has pleased me especially, carrying as it does not only your own signature, but those of Mary, Arthur, and Tommie. It has made me feel that I had renewed an old and friendly content with the Sun family, even if they are many miles away. I am writing merely to tell you how touch I appreciate your thoughtfulness and to tell you, also, that you need not worry further about my health. I seem to be just as well as I ever was, except that I hadn't quite the reserves to draw on as yet that I would like to have. When I get back in harness again next fall, however, I am sure that I shall be in better condition than I have been for a number of years, at least. Please give my warmest and friendliest greetings to all the children, and believe me, with constant good will. Ever sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bcdedb135dacc6741ed83eb881792eb8.jpg 0dfd3665b3d7f7492728bed6762da258 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1928 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 21, 1928 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 May 21,1928 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: Thank you for your letter of April 21. I shall give a good deal of thought to Mary’s problem before allowing her to make any radical changes in her present plans. In the meantime I shall, of course, take into most careful consideration all of the suggestions which you have so wisely offered. I do not think that you need to worry about Charlie seeking a military career, for I am sure that at heart the boy has no real talent or interest in that particular line. He ought not to have, in any case, unless he should find the profession a medium for doing so something really worth while economically, morally, and politically for his country, and the the history of the nations of the world reveals only too clearly the fact such rare leaders are few and far between. As I wrote in my letter to you of April 24, the remittance of $4,000, to which you refer, was duly received from the national City Bank of New York. The check came direct from the Bank without any other comment than that it was being forwarded at your request and so I acknowledged Its receipt at the time, February 4, 1928, direct to the Bank. The amount in question was deposited at once and to the credit of Charles, Thomas, and Mary which I assumed to have been your wish. With personal regards, believe me always Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1bd77d3ca32a38e29adf9e8a7b7ab264.jpg f63052c3b4e562f10bb5436f54c5fb78 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1d0c5aa198e0acc55089e225b17c6f47.jpg 532a28159fa09d7d3486a551fa9abb4b 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1929 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 21, 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 Mr. Sun: I have read with keen interest your letter of April 23, received this morning. We have all felt most anxious for you here as we have heard from time to time of your ill health, but have dared hope, and thought that I was justified in believing, that in recent weeks you had been recovering steadily your old-time strength and vigor. I do trust that I am not mistaken in believing that this is so. You have my own and the best wishes of your other good American friends for such a happy outcome. While it may be wise for Charlie to complete some more advanced study in this country, I am perfectly sure that in the boy’s present frame of mind it would be most unfortunate if he were not allowed to have at least two or three months at home after the close of his college course this June. The boy has worked hard and most conscientiously and has seemed to me, as I have had occasion to meet him, definitely fagged. I do not believe that he can get the needed freshening up in any other way than in carrying out his cherished hope of returning to China for the coming summer. Further, I am confident that he can plan much more wisely for the future after talking over his problems with you in person, for I do not think that at present he has a clear idea as to just what he should study if he were to continue his higher work at once. I hope very much, therefore, that you will give your full sanction to the trip home, for I am confident that Charlie himself would never feel really happy about it unless you did. He is too conscientious for that. As for Mary, I am growing increasingly optimistic, as I have already written you. Naturally I have read with keen interest the copy of the letter which one of her patients wrote you, and it does not surprise me at all. As you know, Miss Clemons, who [illegible] Mary for several years at closest range in my home, always maintained that Mary had a natural gift for nursing and that she would be successful in that line if she ever attempted it. Where Mary has failed thus far has been in her unwillingness or inability to handle satisfactorily the studies demanded at the Nurses Training School and which naturally, have required real intellectual effort, for nursing today is a real profession and those who practice it are required to do some hard studying, in the sciences, especially, in order to fit themselves for their tasks. I don't think that Mary has ever fully realized the importance of this ground work, though she has always taken hold with enthusiasm and efficiency of the practical side of nursing. What has given me special ground for increasing optimism has been the latest reports which seem to indicate that in her studies Mary has shown some definite improvement in recent months. Again thanking you for your letter, and wishing you and early and complete return to your old time health and vigor, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/96e7205b3aa66a23a250dbf6a546db5b.jpg 53308d6a1570a7ec0f5163b5a230ef1d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ffa0da887d6d3e5fb41454cc1c25a3e6.jpg 840283eac4a66cf50f56b83945277ed0 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 1923-1926 Folder 2, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 24, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 24, 1926 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 24, 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 May 24, 1926 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Sun I this morning received your letter of April 31. Mr.Sze and I have had personal conference and have continued to discuss Mary’s case and plan for her future by correspondence. Your letter seems to express your full approval of the steps which we have been taking, a bit in the dark at times, I must admit, so far as your real desires were known to us. This morning’s mail also brings me a letter from the President of Elmira College, the college which both Mr. Sze and I decided was best fitted to meet Mary's needs, saying that after reading my letter the Committee on Admissions had decided to admit Mary on my recommendation, even though she may not be fully able to pass all of the regular entrance examinations. This is good news indeed, and the gratifying decision is no doubt due in large measure to Mr.Sze's personal influence and interest in the case. Of course for Mary's own sake it is imperative that, even though technically admitted, she should have covered as far as possible the full preparation required in order that she may not find the college work itself beyond her reach and too hard. With Mr. Sze's help, I am arranging for her to study during the summer under the direction and in the home of a competent member of the Elmira College faculty. I am sure that such a plan offers the best and most worth while kind of a summer that can be planned for Mary at Just this stage. Now that Mary’s case has been definitely, and I believe satisfactorily, settled. I most admit that the biggest problem I have on my bands at present and the cause of my chief worry is Tom. Tom is not doing well, and our combined efforts to rouse him and make him realize just where he stands and where he is heading seen thus far to have failed. At our last faculty meeting I asked Tom's teachers for full and frank expression of opinion on Tom and his problem. All are agreed that the boy can and should do letter work. Most of them also feel, as I have come to feel, that the boy has reached the point where he is not gaining additional benefits by the school connection here but indeed gives evidences of slipping a bit. We can't possibly graduate this June. By faculty vote he has just been put on what we call probation because of his low standing and because this is the customary penalty imposed on a boy with a record like Tom's. This means that, in the judgment of the faculty, it is altogether unlikely that the boy should be allowed to go on here next year. The more I have studied the case, the clearer I am that Tom is not yet quite ready for college and the freedom of collage , unless it be a small New England college somewhat separated from the temptations and activities of a big city. He might get into such a college next fall, but I doubt whether this would be rise. My inclination at the moment is to favor and favor rather strongly a year in a good military school, for Tom evidently needs discipline, to be made to do things accurately and on time and to obey orders promptly and without questioning - in fact to make those contacts and secure those influences which a prod military school supplies. I have been interested to find that several of my colleagues on the faculty who have known Tom most intimately share my views completely. When Mr. Robinson appears, I shall discuss the case with him fully and carefully, for I confess that I am troubled, and I must also admit that it seems out of the question for Tom to fulfill your wish that he should graduate from this school without forcing him to take another year, which would mean a good deal of repetition and a continuation of the same influences which have lately, at least, not proved stimulating to him. with the inevitable result of lessened ambition and effort on is part; and that, of course, would mean ultimate disaster and must be avoided at all costs. I appreciate more deeply than I can tell you the friendly and generous cooperation you have so readily given me at all times and the confidence you have so generously reposed in me as I have sought to carry out your wishes for your children. Naturally I am doubly troubled when the results most desired do not come or seem to be at least delayed. At any rate, I can assure you that to whatever extent I may have failed in aiding your children to obtain the goals which you have cherished for them, there has been no lack of willingness or interest and there has always been a sharing on my part of the disappointment and regret which have naturally been years. Believe me, with warm regards and friendliest good wishes. Very sincerely yours. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5fbe581affe43c0c5cf40d572f16f8dd.jpg 606ba603a0cb33653bbaa10b2517453c 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin November 14, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin November 14, 1929 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 November 14, 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 Dear Mr. Sun: Minister Sze has just sent me from London your letter of July 20 in which you tell me that Mr. Sze is to bring me a piece of carved white jade of the Sung period and a gift from you. Mr. Sze writes that he had intended to come to this country on his way to London but was deterred from doing so, and that he will consequently ship the jade from London to me if he receives my instructions to do so. I have just written him suggesting that he should do this if he feels that so valuable and delicate an article can be safely sent. Otherwise, I have asked him to hold the jade until such a time as I may know of some one who is returning from England to this country and who can perhaps be persuaded to bring your gift directly to me. I can’t begin to tell you how much I am touched by this latest evidence of your friendly good will. Nothing could possibly be appreciated or valued more highly by me than a piece of old Chinese jade. I can well recall how my mouth used to water when I was in China, if you will excuse this American slang, when I gazed on some of the wonderful pieces of carved jade that my eyes encountered in different places, and envied for once those whose material resources permitted them to own something of this kind. Of all the gifts that you and other kind friends have from time to time sent me, none, I am sure, will occupy a higher place in my estimation than this of which your letter brings the announcement. I can only endeavor through the poor medium of words to tell you the depth of my gratitude. A telegram received from Charlie yesterday advises me that he is sailing from New York today on this S.S. "Bremen" to take up his new work with the Legation in London. I am sure that he will realize there the high expectations that we cherish for him and will prove himself a valuable member of the Legation staff. Of all the Chinese boys which it has been my privilege to meet and know here in America, none has appealed to me more strongly than Charlie, and none has won more fully my confidence and good will. With warm personal regards and renewed thanks for your latest and most generous thought of me, believe me Sincerely and gratefully yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e8db335849332c4ee2aac662984880a9.jpg 7746739b6d1a8c83e5f86ddd6d0a7b3a 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 22, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 22, 1929 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 October 22, 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 Mr. Sun: Thank you for your good letter of September 23, which has just recently been received. As I have already written you, and no doubt my letter will have reached you long before this, your instructions to Charlie were duly and promptly convened and accepted by the boy himself in the best of spirit. He is hoping very much, however, that he will not have to take on the new work in London until a bit later so that he will be able to secure definite credit at Columbia for the work which he has been doing there since early summer. If he has to leave too soon, that work will practically be thrown away, at least so far as academic credits are concerned. Charlie will abide by your instructions, however, and will be ready to cooperate fully with Dr. Sze. I will also see that your instructions are carried out in the matter of funds, and will provide the boy with whatever he requires to make the trip and get started with his new tasks. Yes, both Tom and Mary seem to be happy and doing exceptionally well. I have already told Tom that I did not look with any great favor on Syracuse for graduate work, and I think that he himself has come to this decision. Anyway, he has promised to come down as soon as his work at Middlebury permits and talk over the whole question with me. Trusting that your own health is being steadily re-established, and with kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, P.S. I sent you recently statements of the accounts of the children for the past year, and trust that those will have reached you safely C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c5efadf6313ab411f86b57704525e7c7.jpg ea09307179d75437031e4d74585565f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/82aa2b916e08e209401aa1829d5f3a80.jpg 8d506074e64d71c179c496635a514893 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 3, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 3, 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 October 3, 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 Mr. C. Y. Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin China My dear Mr. Sun: I have read with great interest your letter of August 31 received only a day or two ago. The same mail brought me a most interesting letter from Quincy, and I am hoping to hear from Arthur erelong. Quincy evidently feels a good bit discouraged over the conditions which he finds in China on his return after his long absence, in foreign lands. This is natural enough, I suppose, but I have tried to impress upon all these boys that they are to have a wonderful chance to help set right the things which they are disposed to criticize and that that should be one of the great objects of their lives. Please remember me most warmly to both of the boys when you see them. Yes, I received duly and acknowledged at the time your remittance of July 1st to the amount of $5.000.00 and have credited the same, one-third each, to the accounts of Charles, Thomas, and Mary. I hope to send you the statements of the five accounts, including those of Arthur and Quincey, within the next few days. I shall transfer, as authorized by you in an earlier letter, to the accounts of the three children still in this country whatever balances remain on the accounts of Arthur and Quincey. To date I have not done this, as one or two late bill a contracted by the boys just before they sailed have come in only recently and I feared that there might possibly be others, that doesn’t seem likely now to be a probability. Charlie writes me enthusiastically of his life and work: at Amherst this fall. I have not heard from Tom since the college year opened though I did have a little from him shortly before the opening and after he had returned to the college town. He made a much better record at Middlebury last year than I dared hope for and feel very much encouraged. Mary writes me that she finds the work at Elmira much more interesting this year than last, and I am glad of that. Since my last letter to you, in which I encouraged Mary’s desire to take a course at the Yale University Nursing School, Mary has written me of receiving a letter from you urging her to perfect herself in stenography and typewriting. Apparently she accepted the suggestion and plans to do as you requested. Curiously, Mr. Tsai, Ting-kan, whose two children are also under my care at present, wrote me that long ago urging very strongly that his daughter Helen take special work of this same kind. He seems to feel that there is an increasing in China for girls who have had this training to secure worth-while positions and be able to render a real service. What you write me of the weather in Shanghai and Tientsin certainly inspires sympathy to those who are forced to endure it. One summer here was unusually cold and rainy, as was the early fall. Just now we are passing through what we call an Indian summer, the temperature for the last few days having been up between the 80’s and 90’s, a range which you would doubtless call cool but which is unusual for us this season. I have no doubt that you will talk over freely and fully with Arthur and perhaps Quincey the life and work of your three children who are still here. If, as the result of these in their situations which I ought to know and by knowing which I would be better able to direct them as you would wish, please feel perfectly free to tell me, even if the telling must assume the form of criticism. I am clearly sensible of my own limitations in doing for these children all that I would like to do and that which will prove in the end wholly for their best interests. My chief wish, however, is and has always been to carry out to the best of my ability your wishes and to help you realize in these children those high ideals and worthy ambitions which you have always cherished for them. To accomplish this, complete frankness is essential, and I shall always welcome such from you. With sincere good wishes and kindest personal regards, believe me Faithfully yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/063b6f86dc4637ad118c2f5a738b5f44.jpg a1a97f67d05db4814e9a2e395bde9599 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 17, 1928 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 17, 1928 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 September 7, 1928 Mr.C.Y.Sun, 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Sun: On my return to Andover from my summer holiday, I find your letter of July 13, in which you advise me that you have ordered payment to me in your children’s behalf of the sum of four thousand dollars from the National City Bank of New York. The check in question was received during my absence and has been duly credited to the accounts of the three children, one-third of the amount to each. I hope to be able to send you the detailed statements of their accounts within the next few days, or as soon as the rush of the opening of the school year is over. Both Charlies and Tom have written me recently and are returning this week to their colleges for the new college year. Mary at present is visiting Mr.Sze at his summer home and seems to be very happy over the prospect of taking up her new work at the Yale Nursing School this fall. Both Tom and Charlie have done steady and on the whole excellent work this past year and I have been for the most part very well satisfied with and happy over their progress. Since the children entered their various colleges, it has been my custom to send them lump sums to cover their college and other expenses since it is practically impossible for me to take care of the individual bills contracted from time to time and to follow their expenditures in the detailed way that I was accustomed to do when they were here in Andover and right on the ground. I have followed their expenditures, however, as carefully as I could, and have them submit from time to time detailed statements. On the whole, I think they have done very well. Tom especially has pleased me because his earlier tendencies were to extravagance, tendencies which since he has been in college seem to have been disappearing. He and Charlie do not vary very much, I find, in the amounts which they deem it necessary to spend, and as Charlie has always been pretty steady in this respect, I am inclined to believe that my judgment in Tom’s case is on the whole justified. This is the busiest season of the school year, so that I am necessarily making this a somewhat brief letter. It carries with it, however, my sincere regards and my best wishes for the health and happiness of yourself and your family. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1216c0a1b205db39087bdb128add3454.jpg 06f2f1f9f6aada416b242ebe39d96fca 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 17, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 17, 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 September 17, 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 September 17, 1931 Mr. C.Y.Sun 44 Cambridge Road Tientsin, China Dear Mr. Sun: It was very thoughtful and kind of you to write me so promptly of the safe arrival of Mary and Tom. Needless to say, the news brought me great relief and pleasure. Mary had sent me a postal from time to time on the journey, and Tom has written me, too, generous letters which I have enjoyed immensely. Of course I am greatly pleased at your testimony as to the character of the development which you note in your children. I can only hope that all of your ideals will have been largely attained as your watch them later at their new work in the old home environment. Sometimes I wonder just how far it is fair and proper to go in subjecting Easterners to Western conditions and life and vice versa, when those involved are eventually to be forced to adjust themselves again to home conditions. Unquestoinably there is much to be gained if the later adjustments can be and are properly made. I have known some cases, however, where this has proved a very difficult and at times painful process, and in a few instances, at least, it has proved seemly impossible. I am confident, however, from what I know of both Mary and Tom, and especially because I have such confidence in your wisdom and judgment, that they will both fill their places in the new life now opening to them and do their work in a way that shall bring credit to them and happiness to you. I will hold as you have requested the balance of your funds, of which I have already sent you a statement, until I receive further instructions from you. I should imagine that remission at this time, when the exchange is so distinctly in your favor, might be well worth considering, though of course that is a matter for you and not for me to determine. It is greatly distressing to me to hear of your continued ill-health, and I do hope with all my heart that you may shortly face a turn for the better and that the next report that comes to me may be of a far more happy kind. In the meantime, please accept my sincere good wishes for the days ahead, and my warm personal regards. Let me assure you again, too, that such little service as I have been able to render you and your children has been a real joy to me, and one which in its own satisfactions has supplied ample reward for whatever strain or stress may have been involved. Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8523a7c374f6945ccd3a5c10fe4abba4.jpg 3f43e283e14e3bee45ab5f9a08674b62 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 Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 30, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin September 30, 1929 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Thank you so much for your good letter of September 6. I am forwarding the copy of this letter to Charlie as suggested, and am urging him again to do his best to overcome his disappointment and make the most of the opportunities that he still has for increasing his efficiency for his future life work. From the tone of Charlie's letters, he has already accepted the situation with remarkably good sense and fortitude and I have been very proud of him for this reason. I do hope, however, that the opening in the London field will materialize, for I am sure that not only would Charlie give an excellent account of himself in such a position, but that he would gain much that would be of distinct value to him in his later career. Trusting that you may continue to gain health and strength until these have been re-established once more at their best levels, and with kindest personal regards, believe me 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 September 30, 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 C.Y.Sun Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns