46 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/15035ef3941fcf5bd9484954f646788e.jpg 57664cd9b57237d8923ecc100dda8059 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f09454dc9596aa9b2f5c5fed1bc38b6c.jpg 679591385292cb59ded2e8f1b55d6539 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 G. Robinson (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson (YMCA), St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Robinson: Yesterday morning I received your special delivery letter of September 20, but, as I was just leaving town to place a new Chinese ward of mine in his school for the year, I have had no chance to reply until today. As it is, I am afraid I can't add much to my last letter. After visiting Elmira, your sister wired me that it seemed best to accept the dormitory plan, as this arrangement was vigorously endorsed by the college authorities. The next day I received a letter from the Registrar, urging very strongly that the dormitory arrangement be approved and stating that the proposed plan for a room in a private house outside was unusual and did not meet with the approval of the college authorities. Under the circumstances I could only wire your sister to approve the selection of the room assignment already made for Mary in a dormitory. A long letter received from Mary explains that her presence in Trenton over the week-end was due to the fact that she had to go to New York in any case to reach Elmira and would have to pass a night either there or somewhere near by on the journey. She felt, therefore, that it was not only proper but the wise thing to do to stay over the week-end with one of her school friends who lived in Trenton. I wrote her that I could not blame her for the decision but that I did blame her very severely for not keeping me fully posted as to her plans and movements, her failure to do so in this instance causing both you and myself serious anxiety and wholly unnecessary investment of time and labor. 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 23, 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 G. Robinson Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/665c3818e043a7a0537507bf5dbcf355.jpg 9b7286df372a6f13067fc8941ffd831e 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., September 23, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Amherst, Mass., September 23, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Just a line to acknowledge the recent of your nice letter of September 21 and the receipt for the $500.00 recently sent you. I like the sound of that new dormitory room of yours and shall welcome the chance to visit you there when next go to Amherst. Take care of yourself and don’t get any more colds. You will enjoy the new year thoroughly, I am confident. Ever 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 23, 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/de637c420da8fe637e8fb6736960dedd.jpg 6e8f5a744e40fb3eab68b0342fefb7c9 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8db3543c1cb4ceac5cb8aa6c512e991b.jpg f63ee2545a1671049842c79a4ad785f5 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 College, September 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, September 22, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Mary: This morning’s mail brings me your good letter of recent date, the receipt of which I have been anxiously awaiting. Yesterday I mailed you a check for $20.00 in answer to the request contained in your telegram: so that I hope you will be able to tide things over until more cash arrives. Just a word about your accommodation for the year. Of course I have been badly in the dark. My own feeling was that you ought to be in a dormitory and that at your age and with your past experience at Abbot and elsewhere you were perfectly capable of handling yourself under dormitory conditions. On the other hand, I know from experience that many of the Chinese girls go to college here have, in the past at least, invested their first year in good private homes. When Mr. Robinson assured me that it was your father's earnest wish that such an arrangement should be made for you and that he himself was prepared to go to Elmira and select a home, I naturally felt that this was the only wise and proper course to pursue. You can understand, I am sure, that I could not be expected to know that Mr. Robinson did not fully and impartially represent your father's views. Under the circumstances it was only natural that I should have taken the position I did and insist you should follow his wishes. The situation was further and very seriously complicated by your failure to notify me that you were planning to spend the week-end in Trenton, for I had naturally assumed from your earlier letters that you would go at once from Springfield to Elmira and that you could, therefore, be reached in one at least of these places. I did not appreciate the fact that a night in New York would be necessary to accomplish this. Under the circumstances I did not criticize the plan that was made but do criticize, and rather severely, your failure to keep me posted. I had to send at least a half a dozen telegrams to various persons in my attempts to locate you. Mr. Robinson had made his arrangements to meet you part way and take the trip with you. When he discovered that this was impossible and I did not even know where you were, he naturally inferred that you had taken the law into your own hands too much and that I, as your American guardian, was not keeping proper oversight of you. Undoubtedly he will report this to your father and to my embarrassment. I am sure you will appreciate my position and why I complain. Miss Robinson telegraphed me after her visit to Elmira, stating that her talk with the college authorities and convinced her that the dormitory arrangement was the proper thing. Miss Mallett, the Registrar, wrote me to the same effect. I immediately wired Miss Robinson approving the dormitory plan and wrote Miss Mallett a similar endorsement. Under the circumstances I do hope that the matter has been satisfactorily straightened out, but I am sure you will agree now that most of the trouble has arisen from your earlier failure to keep me clearly and promptly posted of your whereabouts and plans. Please don't let this happen again, for it has caused me an enormous amount of worry and good bit of time at just the busiest season of the school of the school year, when I could ill afford to suffer either. For some time I have been planning to put you on a definite allowance, for I think you are old enough now and are disposed to be careful in your expenditures. Certainly Charlies and Quincey do better in this way than they did under the old scheme. I am always glad to send them lump sums which they can disburse as they wish. If you can do as well as they, the arrangement will prove in every way wise. Anyway, I shall be glad to take the matter up on the new basis beginning next month, and after you have had a chance to figure a little more closely and clearly what your college expenses are likely to be. I have already sent a check to the college treasurer for $250., which from the catalogue I supposed necessary but which from the bill received from them yesterday would seem to be a bit too much. Do write me often and keep me fully informed about your work and life at college. I shall be interested in everything that concerns your welfare. With all good wishes, 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 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d4594661be85d97b4639aba7fa4bced0.jpg da4d36be90816cbcdbf9a85a8a8e646c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0fb6bfbe081430245c720a86ea3000d0.jpg 823319dd45eb618f0b6b0fe8355687ec 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 Carlie Mallett, Elmira College, September 21, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Carlie Mallett, Elmira College, September 21, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Mallett: I have your letter of September 20. The room arrangements for Mary Sun have been very much complicated through the appearance on the scene of Mr. Robinson, a very close and intimate friend of Mary's father in China. Mr. Robinson brought with him the last reports of Mr. Sun's desires, and these were, apparently, that Mary should room for her first year in college in some good private family. Under the circumstances I felt that this was the only course to pursue and expressed my approval of the plan, but seemingly very much to Mary's regret. Mr. Robinson, in the meantime, had arranged with a family in Elmira to take the girl for the year, and I consequently asked Mary to notify you at once of her desire to cancel the room in the dormitory, believing that there would still be an opportunity for you to find another occupant before the college actually open. I am standing ready to reimburse you for the room in case this proved to be impossible. Mr. Robinson had planned to meet Mary last Saturday and go with her to Elmira, but we were unable to locate her at the moment, as she was visiting friends; and so his sister made the trip to Elmira and wired me this morning, an hour or two before your letter arrived, telling me of her interview with you and her conclusion that under the circumstances the dormitory room should be held and be occupied by Miss Sun. She asked for my advice, and I wired her at once expressing my approval. I hope, therefore, that the trouble has now been revoved [sic] and that the arrangements made will prove in every way I am a bit surprised at what you say of the artificiality and unusualness of housing a girl, and especially a foreigner, outside of the college buildings for the first year of her college course, for I know that in most of the colleges such an arrangement is the one commonly made and preferred. Of course my only desire is to do what is best for the girl herself and at the same time carry out, so far as I decently can, her father's expressed wishes. 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 21, 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 Carlie Mallett Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/da26c64b654502164de1fad03d0a6706.jpg bce037d487117cfb5fb44ca8acfa0d41 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Trenton, New Jersey, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Trenton, New Jersey, September 20, 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 September 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 Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/90691ae372bd71a73f97e8a2451182ca.jpg 5d8d56659125778d9738036f237b0de7 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, Vermont, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 20, 1926 Relation A related resource My dear Tom: Your letter of September 17 reached me this morning. Evidently your last one to me was written before mine to you had been received. If so, I apologize for the seeming severity of my remarks about the bills. Anyway, l and since I sent the check direct to you, I am returning the tutors' bills and will ask you to settle them direct, sending back to me, however, the individual receipts. Trusting that you will meet with complete success in gaining admission to college and with best wishes for a good year, 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 September 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/400aae326ea1247d4f30324d670aa623.jpg 602f4c5f314f428bd50fc3af53520644 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, New York City, September 18, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, New York City, September 18, 1926 (regarding Mary Sun) Relation A related resource Message just received. Will emphatically stand back of arrangements you have made for Mary. Am writing/and wiring her to this effect. Arthur cannot accompany her Elmira. Charlie not yet located. Unless Mary has already left for Elmira she can be reached at 175 Florida Street, Springfield, Mass. Suggest you wire her instructions for meeting you or your sister as suggested. Alfred E. Stearns 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 18, 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 Telegram Arthur G. Robinson Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d7b18a0908b02d0ef3125b81d1a318b8.jpg 3b98c69d0d1b8b205133b7d97e46b021 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Springfield, Mass., September 18, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Springfield, Mass., September 18, 1926 Relation A related resource September 18, 1926 To Mary Sun Street and No. (or Telephone Number) 175 Florida Street Place Springfield, Mass. Message received from Mr. Robinson this morning states he or his sister will arrange to meet you on trip to Elmira and get you properly settled for year. Plans made for you by Mr. Robinson carry out your father's instructions and so have my full endorsement. Be sure to notify promptly Elmira authorities cancelling dormitory room reservation earlier made. Alfred E. Stearns Charge to Sun account 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 18, 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 Telegram Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f4729e508256cff1240fa968e33f53d0.jpg 1e85b49703ec38e90ad7c6dc0cab39de 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, MIT, September 17, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, MIT, September 17, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have your letter of September 15. I don't know to just what extent I can help you in finding a job, but of course I shall be ready and glad to do my best. Whether anything can be found that will not require you to sign a fairly long contract is a question. Naturally a firm that takes on a wholly inexperienced man feels that it can hardly afford to give him a job unless it can keep him long enough to insure that the connection shall eventually contribute something really worth while to the organization. That evidently is the reason for the customary two-year contract to which you refer. Very possibly it may be necessary for you to start with a drafting job. That, at least, will give you admission to the inner circles, where it would be much easier for you to press your claims for a job of the kind you especially desire. I should certainly hesitate to turn down a good offer in a drafting department, provided the firm is a good one and is ready to take you on. City officials are generally politicians and change pretty rapidly. For the moment I can’t think of any of my acquaintances to whom I could apply in your behalf, but I shall certainly keep the matter in mind and do the best I can for you. In the meantime, let me hear how you come out in the make-up examination. 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 17, 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/c9159f1870817f12bdde480847b01ca7.jpg a7e00f5ca7ffc06a79b6a6130c90a13d 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, Vermont, September 17, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Middlebury, Vermont, September 17, 1926 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have your letter of September 15 and am greatly disturbed that you should have refused to heed my instructions and ask your tutors to send me their bills or to send them yourself. Since I do not hold them responsible for this failure, but you only, I am sending the check to cover the $84.00 due your tutors and the $55.00 due the hotel. Immediately on receipt of this check pay the bills in question and send me at once the individual receipts. I can't continue to make requests of this kind which you carelessly disregard, and I must insist that this matter be settled at once and in a business-like way and according to these instructions. I shall await your early reply. Hereafter please realize that, when I ask you to do a thing in a certain way, I expect it to be done in that way without quibbling on your part. I haven't the time or the patience to invest extra labors that are wholly unnecessary and forced on me only because of your carelessness or negligence. Sincerely yours, Enc. 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, 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