39 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/58a033b109dce27ba7c91c881d869d07.jpg 040c216117ac9e4110956a788e919247 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 September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., December 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., December 22, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Charlie: Thanks for your letter and Merry Christens and a Happy New Year. Yes, I had read about that big fire in Amherst, and it reminded me of the night many years ago when, as a small boy, I watched a similar fire which destroyed the whole of that Main Street block from the Amherst House down to and including the Hunt’s Block where the bank is now located. I can imagine what a fire the old Amherst House must have made, but I hope that the now building that rises on its sight will add a little more to the beauty of the town than did that somewhat ungainly structure. I am sending your Chinese candy to the Amherst address. Tom is here for a day or two on his way to Boston to visit Frank, and Mary by this time is no doubt in Springfield. I hope you can all get together before the vacation is over. With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, believe me always 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 22, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6be110315461c1d19f25fcb02e441ccf.jpg e8f175d597b926efa74ba1ff826bcf85 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 September-December 1926, 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 Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass. December 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass. December 20, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thanks for your good letter received this morning. I am glad indeed to learn that the teeth are better and the job progress¬ing satisfactorily. Tom arrived Saturday and is waiting for his expense ac¬count to come from Middlebury so that he can check up with me on his funds and then arrange for his vacation. I have urged him to invest part of the time at least in Amherst with Charlie so that he can be near Mary, especially for Christmas Day. The usual Christmas boxes of Chinese candy from your home arrived several days ago, and I am remailing yours to your Cambridge address. With all good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy and successful New Year, believe me Faithfully yours, AES/j 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 20, 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4d649a453e57d62efc0282ea5fce04b2.jpg 92a0a5a813de41160f74dc597b179f5f 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 September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, December 14, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, December 14, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thank you for your letter just received and advising me of your vacation plans. If you have occasion to move about after reaching Springfield, please let me know so that I can keep in touch with you. I don’t want to run the risk of another upset and misunderstanding such as we had last fall when Mr. Robinson appeared. It was great fun to be out there at Elmira and meet you and your friends, and I appreciated very much the friendly welcome that was given me. I only wish you were not so far away. The Christmas bundles of candy from your home arrived only tills afternoon. Shall I send yours to Springfield? A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you! Ever sincerely yours, AES/G 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 14, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c9c81d7ecd62a762bde2490abd0b2123.jpg cc8008e9d7b47d0607d9a3f9ee98de4e 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 September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 1, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 1, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter, and congratulations on your scholastic success to date. Keep it up and keep the expenses down. That kind of a combination means a good education. If you can conveniently get around here during the Christmas holidays, so that we can talk things over together. I shall welcome the chance to see you. I regret that I am not in a position this year to provide Christmas hospitality, and Christmas festivities for my Chinese and other friends. 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 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f695216d6f80ffead253650557dcbaa3.jpg ac6799d093a09b5384a472bd7500cab5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a74f8d357c43460877c087db6f306668.jpg dd9006ecc088eafabdbb1711ddb42431 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 September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., December 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., December 7, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Many thanks for your letter of December 2. I am sending you a check, as requested, and shall be ready to send more when this sum has been exhausted, for I have absolute confidence in your good sense in handling money and am really delighted with the sane and balanced way in which you meet responsibilities in general. I wish I felt as easy about Tom. I am perfectly satisfied to have you remain in Amherst, provided only you do not devote the vacation too vigorously to hard work. A fellow who works as conscientiously as you do deserves and needs a definite amount of relaxation at vacation times. If you do make your headquarters in Amherst, plan, by all means, please, to get away for one or two short trips, anyway, just to get new contacts and a general freshening up. Don't let that poet dream business grip you too hard or too long, though it is all right for Christmas Day itself. You will be interested to know that I saw quite a little of Mary just this last week-end. I accepted an invitation to preach at Elmira College, chiefly for the chance it offered to see her and also in connection with an alumni meeting. I saw her for a minute Saturday afternoon in a swirling anew storm. Sunday morning she brought two or three of her friends down to the local church in Elmira, where I was speaking, and Sunday evening, after the college service, she was invited with me over to the Senior dormitory, where in front of a big open fire we sat and chatted and had a good time generally. She seems in the best of health and spirits, though she feels that her work comes pretty hard. The terms used in her course in trouble her most, and she is consequently taking a little outside tutoring in that subject for the present. I haven’t seen her marks yet. She, herself, doesn’t know what they are going to be. Anyway, it was good to see her and find her so well and so happy. I am sorry that the friend in Springfield happens to be one of the Abbot group who helped in that troublesome fuss last year. Still, I understand that the family are nice people, and, since Mary seems likely to be happiest with them and also most closely in touch there with you and Arthur, I think think this is the best arrangement we could probably hope for. Regretting deeply that I can’t have the old pleasure of welcoming you for the Christmas season in my own home and wishing you a truly joyful Christmas season and a happy and prosperous New Year, believe me always Very sincerely yours, AES/G 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 7, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b592651122ea58a7feed4128fec1ef58.jpg 0b971e7bd00af3da525bd81b4087a31b 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 September-December 1926, 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 William S. Murray, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, December 7, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to William S. Murray, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, December 7, 1926 (regarding Arthur Sun) Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Murray: Thanks for your letter of December 3 and for the kindly sentiments expressed therein. I am glad that you feel as you do about Arthur Sun’s present job and I have tried to emphasize to the boy that, regardless of where he starts, he will only be a real success in the end to the extent in which he enlarges for himself, by efficient service and achievement, the boundaries, whatever their size, of the job that is for the moment his. Just how capable he is intellectually of doing this, I am not quite sure, though I hope that he will be found to possess a proper amount of ambition, at least. It was mighty nice of you to write to Mr. Moultrop, as you did. Very sincerely yours, AES/G 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 7, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns William S. Murray https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/73a667c8e5acf67a97bd99358029b83d.jpg da039d58e4cc4187919c7091b9d8055a 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 January-June 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 to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C,. February 5, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C,. February 5, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Sze: I wish to thank you for sending me so promptly the copy of Miss French's letter. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 5, 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 Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7dfdb815777fd61a0e71bc72bf0d5b89.jpg d7a515b69e5382fdad4812a4ded898fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/02a7635fdfd790234cd6097bb5cab771.jpg 939411bae8e15371cc9a18ddd5cb4c18 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 January-June 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 to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have read with deep interest your last letter. It is one of the best you have ever written me, for it indicates careful thought and deliberation on your part. Further, in spite of quite a few grammatical errors, you have expressed your thought well. I am immensely interested in your problem but hardly know what to advise. Of course I can’t blame you for wishing to go home at the end of this year: nor can I blame Mary, for, as I think you and I both realize, it is really much harder for a girl to endure this long separation from home than it is for us of the other sex. Naturally I can understand your father’s desire that Mary should finish her college course before going home. On the other hand, I am inclined to think that a break and visit in the old home, even if it were for only the summer months, would freshen Mary up a lot and tend to offset her present discouragement. I realize only too well that she can't do justice to her studies if she is going to continue in her present frame of mind. Again, in your own case I don't, of course, know what to advise, for this is clearly your father's responsibility, and I have no doubt he has given the matter long and careful thought. I sometimes wonder whether he is not more concerned than he is willing to admit to you over the chaotic conditions now prevailing in China and the possibility of further and more extended troubles in the near future. Under such circumstances it would be only natural if he preferred to have you postpone the home-coming until things had settled down a bit, for, if conditions are anything approaching what the reports indicate them to be, an engineer, or any other professional man for that matter, would certainly find it more than difficult to make a good start. I don't feel that I can properly urge your father to take any action which does not commend itself to him as wise, but if he gives me the opportunity to do so, I shall be ready and glad to stress your side of the matter and explain why I can't help feeling a good bit of sympathy with your position. No, I have not heard from your father yet. Indeed I have received no word from him for many months. I can only hope that he will send me a word in the not distant future to indicate a little more clearly what he has in mind, so that I will have some ground on which to discuss the matter further with him. What you say about Tom interests and pleases me immensely, for I had come to have something of the same feeling about him myself, though I really saw very little of him when he was here. His letters, however, and the way he has been handling his money would seem to indicate that he had been developing better balance and judgment than were his in times past. I have not yet received his scholarship report for the first semester but am hoping for the best. Tom assures me that the report is going to be an excellent one, but I can’t trust too much to his hopes, for, as you know, he has always been an optimist in his predictions, though the predictions were rarely fulfilled in the actual reports from the office. Don’t hesitate to run out here some evening if you care to discuss matters further and more intimately. I am eager to do everything I can to help but naturally feel my limitations. 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 January 19, 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 Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/32f2102ffd88da154240fa6494731a77.jpg ec09e6626d8ccbfb5b40dd4bc275cf55 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 September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, December 1, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, December 1, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: Thank you for your good letter just received. If your friends in Springfield are willing to provide for l you during the holidays or part of the holidays, I shall be perfectly willing to have you go there, especially as you will then perhaps be better able to gt in touch with Charlie and perhaps even Arthur. However, we will talk the thing over when I go to Elmira over this coming weekend. Faithfully yours, AES/G 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 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e0f07b6f71d9af1e517d3e536d2d3a88.jpg aabb9b88ec8ccf7c7acaac23483d8c52 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 September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 7, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, December 7, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Tommie: Thanks for your letter just received. I had a good visit with Mary in Elmira Sunday and found her in the best of health and spirits. She plans to pass her Christmas holidays in Springfield with friends. Charlie will be in Amherst, and Arthur will be at work probably not far from Springfield; so that I imagine that it would be a mighty nice thing if you could arrange to spend a few days of your vacation in Springfield or Amherst. Anyway, come and see me as soon as you get away for your vacation, and we can talk it over. I only regret that I can’t from circumstances provide a welcome in my home this year, as in the past, for you Chinese friends. No boxes have appeared from China yet, but if they do come and are in condition to forward and so that you can be sure of receiving them before you leave, I will send yours on. Otherwise I shall hold them here for further orders. Very sincerely yours, AES/G 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 7, 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