48 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1b482c264819776031f31dd9ab611316.jpg 288ef5a365aab9a528eaf14cf9f34bf8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d88d57f2b3412254fdbbe8f90e938249.jpg 21e9257ab00fa784296da6410cd9354e 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 Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, September 9, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Edward H. Chandler, Twentieth Century Club, Boston, September 9, 1920 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Chandler: On my return to Andover from my summer vacation I find your letter of August 23rd. My desk also contains numerous letters, from Chinese friends and others, relating to the arrival in Andover in the near future of the group of Chinese boys and girls who are to be placed in my charge. Mr. M.T. Liang had already written me that one or two boys were to come in this way; but I have only just become aware that the group was to be so considerably enlarged. You may assure your nephew that these boys and girls from the other side of the world will receive my most careful thought and attention. For years I have dealt with Chinese students, nearly a hundred of them at one time or another having been temporary wards or semi-wards of mine, and no individual task connected with my work here at Andover has proved more satisfying or inspiring than this one. Under the circumstances I am ready to assume this new and still larger responsibility with real pleasure, fully as I realize the added burdens and anxiety that the task must impose. It is my present intention to look after the younger members of this group by keeping them, for the first few weeks of their stay at least, under my own roof; but I think arrangements can be worked out that will prove satisfactory. It will doubtless be necessary to allow some of the boys to eat at one of the school boarding houses or at the school dining hall in order that the domestic problem may not become too complicated. The young girl, however, I feel sure can be taken into my own family circle and treated exactly as a member of the family. In any case the parents and friends of these boys and girls may rest assured that the youngsters will have every care and consideration that one who is sincerely interested in their welfare can give them. 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 9, 1920 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 Edward H. Chandler https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7d73cd4a4b79155990b996e8dd537968.jpg ba7edacbe2879ce1ddb15258cd495141 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, December 13, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, December 13, 1920 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your nighty nice letter of October 29th is before me. Quincy Sheh arrived at about the same time and has apparently found little difficulty in adjusting himself the new conditions, and already looks like a full fledged Phillipian. He has been at the house several times and his old friends here were most glad to welcome him. He seems like a very attractive fellow. Just now the family circle is pretty well keyed up over the coming Christmas. We are planning a true, with all the fixings. I mean to make the event one which none of our eastern friends will be likely to forget. They are entering into it with the finest spirit and enthusiasm, which will mean much to the enjoyment of the affair by us all. I find that most of the other Chinese boys of the school are likely to be in town over the holidays and I have asked them to join us at the tree. This will make a group altogether of about twenty or more, which will keep Santa Claus a bit busy. I have heard with deep distress of the wide spread and terrible famine from which so much of China is suffering at this time. We have already taken one collection among our boys to aid your good work in alleviating the suffering of these stricken people, and we hope to do more next term. What a suffering world this is these days, with cries for help rising from all sides; and the worst of it all is that a vast portion of this suffering is due indirectly, if not directly, to the incompetency, greed and selfishness of man himself, and his utter disregard of the Golden Rule. Perhaps we need something wide spread like this in the way of calamity and suffering to bring us to our senses and make us duly humble, which, after all, must be the starting point of all accomplishment and real reform. With sincere good wishes for the Holiday Season and the coming 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 13, 1920 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 M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4308e2eedc229c1090cd447c063fd5d5.jpg e4c3173610bc7a9291cf31eb6da230f7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4a0347cecbec1988ca51a8e52ca886a2.jpg be87c07659405ecd88eae8aee4beea5f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cfab2df93c2872c0e5292816e7b7d6d5.jpg 770494c4cf4a5dad6c3290a480c97744 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, February 8, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, February 8, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your welcome letter and the New Year’s card you were good enough to send me reached my desk this morning. As to-morrow is the date of your own Chinese New Year, you certainly timed your missive well. Many thanks for both the card and the letter, and most of all for the friendly spirit back of then. We are planning to give the Chinese boys here something in the way of entertainment, and that will help them to remember the day, though apparently their memories need no jogging in that respect. I want them to feel, however, that though they are in a far away land, it is possible to do something that will make the day a bit different from the ordinary days of the American school year. The four members of the Sun family who are under my roof are an increasing delight and source of satisfaction to us all. They have come to fit into the family in a way that would make us feel very much lost without them. Arthur of course rooms only at the house and is primarily engaged in his school affairs, but he is responsive, always a gentleman, and in every way a desirable boy to have in the house. The three younger children are all that could be asked for. They are interested and earnest in their studies, responsive, and friendly to a unique degree. They are ready to fit in in every way and every time developments or an occasional emergency may demand, and so good natured and willing about it all that they have won the good will and affection of us all to an increasing degree. I really don’t know just how I would get along without them. Quincey Sheh, the last comer, is quiet and a bit shy as yet, but in every way an acceptable addition to the home circle. Frankly though, I do not feel that it is altogether wise to have so many of these Chinese boys under the same roof, merely because they aren't so ready to pick up their English. It is mighty easy for them to talk Chinese when they are together, and one can hardly blame them, but at the same time it does not improve their knowledge of English with the consequent lightening of pressure in their studies which the gain in English would insure. The present arrangement was the best I could work out for the boys at this time, but I will try to figure out something better before the next school year begins. I mean to write Mr. Sun in a few days, enclosing financial statements for all four of his children up to the beginning of the present term. This is the one item which troubles so, for I have found it very difficult to determine just what the children at the house should be charged. I do not wish to make anything out of the transaction, but at the same time it is of course necessary for me to cover the actual outlay and that is hard to determine. Rooms in private houses regularly bring $7 a week now, and board in the best private boarding houses is $12 per week. These two items alone would amount to $19 per week, therefore, on the basis of similar charges made to our boys in shcool [sic]. It is not possible for one in my position to give board at the same outlay on my par that would be true of a boarding house keeper who caters to a large number of boys, and by buying in wholesale lots can secure lower prices. On the other hand, I think I may fairly say that the board at my own table is as good as that supplied in the houses in question, for it is of course necessary for me to keep up a standard which is probably higher than I should think of indulging in were not the necessity constantly forced on me of entertaining guests of the school. Farther, the advent of these young friends at my house brought me immediately face to face with a demand from the kitchen for an increase in wages. I do not think any one in China can conceive of what the servant problem here is like. My two maids alone at the present time get as much money per week as I was accustomed to pay my highest priced cook a month only two or three years back. Of course in addition to these two main items the wear and tear item is a very considerable one, but a very difficult one to estimate. Miss Clemons devotes most of her time and thought to the household and seldom leaves it, and it seem to me that if a way could be worked out, it would be only fair to include in the charge an item, though I know she would insist that I would be a comparatively small item, to cover the extra time and labor which she has so generously given to the work. I do not mean to imply that she does not enjoy it thoroughly, but I happen to know that she has given up many out of town and other trips simply because she did not feel that she could safely dispense with the responsibility even for a limited time. I am going to send you a copy of the letter which I write to Mr. Sun, and I am going to ask you to be absolutely frank with me in criticizing any statements or conclusions made therein. I would give anything if I could sit down and talk out the matter face to face with you and Mr. Sun, especially when conditions in the two countries are absolutely different, as they are at the present time. I do hope that your country is going to weather its present conditions and that by the time the winter is over at least will face a greatly improved economic condition and a freedom from the internal strife and turmoil that have been so injurious to China and so beneficial to her enemies. America is doing something for the relief of your suffering people. Would that she would do more. Believe me with warmest personal regards and kind remembrances to any of my good friends over there whom you may happen to meet. 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 8, 1921 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 M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7110a6525a5a54f957932841be7f07a5.jpg 349f091ab5aa372b8d071b87025cd9b5 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, April 11, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, April 11, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your most interesting letter of March 6 is before me and I have enjoyed it thoroughly. Although the Sun children hear frequently from home, they always relish a word from the home land which comes through another channel, and so when I passed on to them a few remarks from your good letter to me, they were welcomed with eagerness and delight. Deeply as I appreciate your generous sentiments, I do with that it were possible for us all to eliminate from our minds any thoughts of material and business benefits that may result to either nation from a more friendly and intimate contact and relationship. I get thoroughly disgusted at times when I read articles in the American press and magazines which harp eternally on that one theme. Perhaps neither eastern nor westen civilization has been of a high enough standard to disassociate material from the moral and spiritual realm, but Heaven knows we ought to strive a bit harder to attaint that goal, for it is the only one which offers a future of world peace and happy and inspiring relationship. I congratulate you heartily on what you have done and are still doing in the work of your famine relief. It must be a tremendous burden and yet at the same time a most inspiring task. Committees are still actively at work in this country, and their appeals are constantly reaching us. I note, too, and with satisfaction that contributions are still coming in. Please remember me to any of my good friends you may happen to see out there in the Far East, and accept for Mrs. Liang and yourself my very kindest regards and best wishes for the days ahead. I do hope that we may have the pleasure of welcoming you again to this country and to the Andover home with which you are at least somewhat familiar. 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 April 11, 1921 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 M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ff7a1239818e32e15350f34238bb0cb9.jpg b9b7d2aa97892d30e3fc0cae00fe7ed5 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 Walter Humphrey, Registrar, MIT, April 13, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Walter Humphrey, Registrar, MIT, April 13, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Humphreys: We are having a little trouble in straightening out the work of Arthur Sun, one of our Chinese students now in the Senior class, with reference to admission to the Institute next fall. The case has already been called to the attention of your office, and has undoubtedly been dealt with very fairly, but Mr. Newton, our Senior Class Officer, and I are wondering whether it may yet be possible to secure a little more in the way of admission credits from the boy's previous record in China, notably at Tsing Hua College. I believe you will allow a substitution of Chinese for the regular German requirement? If so, that particular difficulty will be taken care of. Is there no way that the History requirement can be made on the basis of the work covered in China, which includes a large amount of Chinese History and Literature? Also is it possible that some subject of subjects on that list can be used for the two-year elective requirement. If an answer to those inquiries can be made in the affirmative, I believe we shall have no difficulty in rounding out the boy's preparation and sending him to you next fall. I am sending back the Tsing Hua certificate for your assistance. I might say that Arthur Sun, the boy in question, happens to live in my own house. He is a very earnest and hard working fellow and has real ability in certain lines; in Mechanical Drawing he is one of the best in the class. With 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 April 13, 1921 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 Walter Humphreys https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/637b89ba3da02f766829d3894e5defcd.jpg d08ca51899fb227205cd36f651c9675e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/52812c924400956dacfc6b22476c23e5.jpg 3b4ef1f8608769cb6860436a653404b9 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 M.T. Liang, Tientsin, June 24, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin, June 24, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Liang: Your fine and generous letter of May 21st has just reached me. As we are just closing the school year and making our plans for the summer I am in the midst of an unusual rush and will only attempt to acknowledge the receipt of your missive and send you a brief word of appreciation and good will. I find it quite a problem to make satisfactory arrangements for the summer for all the Chinese boys entrusted to my care. It seems best to let them all go to summer camp, but not too many in one place. The two younger Sun boys will go to my own camp at Connecticut Lake, and probably one other of their countrymen will be in the party. Arthur Sun, Quincey Sheh and Frank Lin will be placed in other and good camps which are in the control of men who are my personal friends, and who would take special interest in the boys in consequence. Only yesterday I slipped down to the Town Hall in the afternoon to attend the public exercises in connection with the graduation of upper grade of the Grammar School. Charles, Thomas and Mary were members of the class and they were anxious to have me present, as I was indeed to be there. Each pupil was called in turn to the stage to receive his or her diploma, and friends and partisans expressed their approval by the usual hand clapping. What interested me chiefly was to find that those three children from the Far East received greater applause than did any of the American classmates, a clear indication that they had won their way into the hearts and affections of their friends and play mates over here. I am not surprised, for it would be hard to find three nicer youngsters than these, and when I attempt to express an opinion of Mary I really can't find words to do her justice. I doubt whether I have ever met a child with a sunnier, sweeter and evener disposition than that girl possesses. Before the summer is over I hope to send you some further word of our whereabouts and doings. How I wish you might be with me to enjoy the mountain air and glorious scenery of my summer home up in northern New Hampshire. Accept please my heartiest good wishes for the days ahead, and kindly remember me to any old and inquiring friends of mine whom you may happen to run across from time to time in your part of the world. I always remember with deep appreciation and pleasure the friendly good will of Mr. Chow, good will which must have been tested pretty severely when I attempted so unsuccessfully to do something worth while — for his somewhat rebellious son. 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 June 24, 1921 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 M.T. Liang https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b2fc7408e2c9b881d61cb23eb050752b.jpg d983880b599f884d1681d2df93624a23 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 Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., December 17, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Cambridge, Mass., December 17, 1921 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have been delayed in answering your letter of November 10, owing to my absence from town. Thank you for the letter and for returning the bills with the explanation of the charges. I haven't looked up Dr. Abbott's account but will do so at once. Certainly if you visited him only twice, the charge should be very slight. I have just returned from New York where I started Charlie on this new job which will carry him as far as India in any case and perhaps still farther. Tsai is out once more and rapidly getting his full strength and vigor back again. Charlie and Tom are progressing, the former more rapidly than the latter; indeed I am wondering whether Tom is not perhaps a bit out of his depth and whether he should not have another year of preparation before attempting the Academy work. I should like to talk this over with you sometime, for I am not quite sure whether the boys should be separated or not. I don't want to hold Charlie back nor, on the other hand, do I want to do anything that would tend to discourage Tom. I noticed in the paper that Mr. Liang was in Washington, and soon after received a letter direct from him. I hope he will find an opportunity to run up here before he leaves. Please tell me where to address your sister, for we would love to have her visit us in Andover while she is here. Mr. Liang should be addressed, I suppose, in care of the Chinese Legation in Washington. A few days ago I sent you a bundle of newspapers and later received word that this same bundle had been held up at the Cambridge Post Office for lack of sufficient address. I sent on the street number at once, which perhaps had been left off of the original address by accident. If you have not received the papers by this time, I think it would pay you to inquire for them at the Post Office. With sincerest good wishes and kindest regards from all, believe me always 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 17, 1921 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/35a17b8d34abaeec1746f5775cf7bdb5.jpg a14d8781b40f7b80ba8517c5d751a455 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 Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin), Japanese Concession, Tientsin, December 27, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Hsu Shian Lin (father of Frank Lin), Japanese Concession, Tientsin December 27, 1922 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Lin: Let me acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of November 18. Frank and Arthur Sun have both return to us for the holidays and are members of the group at the house who have now become almost a part of my family. The other Suns and Quincey Sheh are with us, of course, and Chien Chang has come on from Troy, New York, to join the group. So you see we have quite a Chinese atmosphere about the house at this time. The boys, I feel sure, have enjoyed this Christmas season together, just as I have certainly enjoyed their presence. Frank apparently finds his work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pretty hard; but he tells me that he expects it to come easier for him from now on, and I hope that this will prove to be the case. He seems in pretty good health and in the best of spirits and the holiday rest and chance for wholesome out-of-door life and recreation will no doubt put him in the best of condition for the work of his winter term. You may be sure that, even though the boy has gone to another institution to continue his studies, I think he feels, as I earnestly wish him to feel, that he can always find in my home the real American home of his own where he will be gladly welcomed and counted almost as one of the family circle. Wishing you the compliments of the season and a happy and prosperous New Year, believe me always 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 27, 1922 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 Frank Lin Hsu Shian Lin https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ce17a36f3fad9a704d9ef0c5a55c7c03.jpg 8183b6e1fbbea7b87818354a3c518ea7 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 Isabel Gulick, Navy Yard, Boston, November 27, 1923 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Isabel Gulick, Navy Yard, Boston, November 27, 1923 Relation A related resource My dear Mrs. Gulick: I have your interesting letter of recent date. Mary Sun, of whom you inquire, is still a member of my household and a day pupil at Abbot Academy in this town. I hope very much that you will run out here some day and see her. Her school duties keep her pretty busy most of the week, but Sundays give her an opportunity to stay at home and see her friends. She is generally free, too, on Wednesday afternoons and could probably arrange for other times if such proved more convenient for you. My home is at 6 Chapel Avenue, just on the edge of the school grounds. 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 November 27, 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/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