53 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8312e432f5f18ec42cf68c931dd44810.jpg d514c2e01ec5fc3da4236e649a7e8f51 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 1930, 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, New Haven, Conn., January 7, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., January 7, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your last letter and for the statement. I am sorry that you had so little time with Tom, but hope that you can arrange to get together again for a longer period before the winter is over. Charlie has written me several times and his last letter was a much more cheerful one than those that preceded it. Naturally he misses his old friends and the conditions to which he had become accustomed in this country, but I am sure that he will make the adjustments in time and will find a lot in England to interest and cheer him. It is too bad about that attack of laryngitis but I am glad that it did not prove more serious and that you have so promptly and fully recovered from it. Steer clear of bugs of that kind for the rest of the winter, for New Haven is not noted for being so free of them during the winter seasons as are some other cities and towns. A happy and successful New Year to you. 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 January 7, 1930 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/1737dee8a713b94074d93621089b7950.jpg 3dc9b5f2fe182c6be183a0749025e1db 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 1930, 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, London, January 6, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London, January 6, 1930 Relation A related resource January 6, 1930 Mr. Charles Sun 49 Portland Place London, W-1, England Dear Charlie: Thank you for your last letter, that of December 19, and in which you acknowledge the receipt of the thirty-five hundred dollars which I recently sent you. From what I read only this morning in the papers of the distinctly bad exchange situation which exists in China today, I am sure it will mean a lot to your father if you are able to conserve this coney so far as you can reasonably do so. Don't apologise for writing what you term “hot headed” letters. I think I know exactly how you felt and I had a lot of sympathy for you under the circumstances. Indeed, I am surprised that you seem to have gotten over your bewilderment so well and so promptly for I figured that it would last longer than this. If I have helped you in any way by my letters and encouragement, I am more than repaid. Minister Sze's suggestion that you take one or two lecture courses seems to me eminently wise. In the meantime, I am hoping that we will get word from your father before very long, prompted by my last letter to him, that will enable you to banish from your mind the bogey of an extra degree. It is just possible that your father may take offence at the frankness with which I have written him, but I hope that his further reaction, after second and more sober thought, will be that I at least could have no ulterior motive in the matter and that I am only desirous of recommending a course that will really mean the most to you in the end and consequently most to your father as well. With constant good will and every best wish for the New Year, believe me Faithfully yours, ADS/C 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 6, 1930 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/c9a6266db9a8daae356741f22b0b8062.jpg 0d63eb9ef5a2fc76e8f71058148e3194 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 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 Mary Sun, Saranac Lake, New York, June 26, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Saranac Lake, New York, June 26, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: On my return from a week-end trip. I find your letter of recent date and also a letter from your father, dated May 23. Your father writes as follows in regard to the Nursing School plan: "Since Mary is naturally inclined to nursing and you and Dean Harris are of the same opinion, it seems best that Mary should change the subjects of her studies to Nursing which would arouse her interest in her college work. Of late, western medical science has made wonderful progress and I am fully aware of its usefulness. So please kindly make due arrangements with the Elmira College authorities for Mary. This leaves us a clear road ahead, and I am counting on you to take the necessary steps, and immediately, to insure your admission to the Yale Nursing School next fall. If there are any forms connected with your admission that have to be filled out or signed by me, I shall be ready to do my part, but the prime responsibility must necessarily fall on you; so don't waste a moment in finding out everything that is required and in sending the Yale authorities--Dean [illegible], I suppose, being the natural representative-whatever data they require. Be sure to have the Elmira authorities supply a complete statement of your work at that college. I am counting on you now to take a wholly new and more enthusiastic and cheerful attitude towards your work. Further, I am counting on you to take this summer any work that may perhaps be necessary to enable you to enter Yale in the fall with the very best preparation possible to meet and meet with high standing the requirements of the Yale Nursing School. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 26, 1928 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy 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/44f6212e1ba0ad87e436f143de7a26d1.jpg 9ebfc319ead25db8dbf816d6e711d963 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 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 Charles Sun, Camp Abnaki, North Hero, Vermont, June 19, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Camp Abnaki, North Hero, Vermont, June 19, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Many thanks for your note and for giving me your address. In spite of the mosquitoes, I hope that the camp and your experience there will make the summer one of the best, if not the best, and the most worth-while of any you have ever known. 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 June 19, 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 Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7ba53635ce36962c81f2043f0314c7c6.jpg e0a366e566be3bd92f2f1ef0489c9354 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 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 Mary Sun, Saranac Lake, New York, June 18, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Saranac Lake, New York, June 18, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your special delivery letter has just arrived, and the contents relieved my mind a good bit. By all means, push now for admission to the Yale Nursing School. If that proves an impossibility we can perhaps work out a transfer to Mount Holyoke later, though I imagine that such transfer would involve a year’s loss in your college standing, and I am not sure that your father would favor that If summer work and hard study is necessary to insure the Yale admission, go to it and get started at the earliest possible date. Let me hear promptly what you hear from Yale, and what the prospects are. Faithfully yours, Headmaster. 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 18, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/03c97e9e45e60314ee056cf5380cee72.jpg 18895fd2e0db9ab562552040cd9b4b5a 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 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 Mary Sun, c/o Y.W. Tsao, Trudeau, New York, June 13, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, c/o Y.W. Tsao, Trudeau, New York, June 13, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your last letter and hardly know what to advise you. From our earlier correspondence and as the result of your urgent pleadings, I gathered that the opportunity to take the nursing course at Yale would be welcomed by you with keen enthusiasm. After the long and not altogether easy negoiations [sic] I have carried through with your father to bring this opportunity within your reach, it distresses me beyond words to have it appear that you are still undecided as to whether you should go there or somewhere else. One thing is clear, and that is that your father infinitely prefers that you should complete a regular college course. If, therefore, you can secure admission to Mount Holyoke College, my advice is to carry through the negotiations and enroll there at once, even if this requires summer work in English or in any other subjects. I certainly have no desire to urge further the nursing course at Yale or anywhere else if you are not in a state of mind to welcome it as a great opportunity of your life. It would be a sad mistake for you to take the course if you had lingering questions in your mind on this subject, and that is why I am about ready now to urge vigorously that you make Mount Holyoke your goal. Whatever decision you make, however, should be made at once, so that the opportunity the summer offers you for meeting any necessary requirements can be used in fullest measure. Please let me know at once what the final decision is to be. 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 June 13, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e32ff391b05383003fba96c887b1b025.jpg a500ca4f3246c3eddd07ee9b4bfa05fb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7998e510a212731c44268a66d562935b.jpg 872687e758dd22302b525061a5219622 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 1931, 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, Chinese Legation, London, March 17, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London, March 17, 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 March 17, 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 Dear Charlie: Your nice letter of February 26 reached me only yesterday, and brought real pleasure to all the members of the household, for Miss Clemons and Marjorie enjoyed it thoroughly, as did I. Frankly, I have been on the point of writing you for a long, long time, but since I have had no secretary during this period of my convalescence, I have found it utterly impossible to keep up with the letters which my kind and sympathetic friends have thrust upon me. Today I am stealing an hour at the office, my second visit only, and hence am sending this note in typewritten form. Needless to say. I am delighted to hear that your father has finally consented to allow you to return home. I have just dictated a letter to him telling him how pleased I am at this news. Just why he should have hesitated so long, I of course cannot expect to understand, but it has long seemed to me that both you and Tom should have gone back to China much sooner than this. Now, in view of all that has been happening over there lately, China needs more than ever men of your ability, poise, and idealism, - men who will play the game straight, as few politicians in any country appear to be able to do, who will win the respect of their friends and citizens, and whose clear vision will enable them to offer definite and attainable goals. I can’t help believing that you can and probably will play a big part in the reconstruction and unification of China, something that must be done, and soon, if China is to fill the place she ought to fill in the world, and to receive the justice and respect that would then be clearly her due. What a tragedy Japan has forced upon the world in these recent weeks! If I were younger, I think I should be tempted to line up with the Chinese in the actual fighting itself if I had the chance. Yes, I am getting along finely, and fast recovering the health and strength of earlier days. Indeed, the doctors tell me, and I think they are going to be right, that I shall be better than I have been for some years. They add the proviso, however, that I must go slow for a time yet if this goal is to be attained. And so, difficult as I find it, I am doing little but loaf, satisfying myself with the thought that it will all more than pay in the end. My thoughts will follow you back to your home-land. They will be with you constantly when you are there. Do write me and keep me posted as to your doings and plans. I don’t know of anything that could prove of more interest to me, for I have always considered and shall always consider that you are in a very peculiar way a member of my own home circle. As such, your doings will interest me as do those of my own children. Good luck and every best wish to you. Very sincerely yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0870d8007b0552cc74a39153dac1a7d3.jpg 9980494c1d4fdff72f1dab26f480606e 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 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, June 6, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, June 6, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I am enclosing a letter which I have just received from the Dean of the Yale School of Nursing and also the catalogue of the School. Please look these over carefully and tell me at once whether you feel that your work at Elmira will meet the requirements. 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 June 6, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/aa6576b9b67f415865ad6cd4c49acb11.jpg 352e699a1499196cbf8fe5b9d397ad47 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 1931, 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, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: Your wonderfully interesting letter of August 19 reached me just in the midst of the opening rush of the new school year. I am not going to try for a minute to answer the letter now as it deserves, for it is just impossible to do so. I do want to tell you, however, that I am delighted at the reaction you have experienced on your return to your native land, and confirming what I have always said to you, I hope with all my heart that you will be able and eager to render a real and lasting service to your country, especially in these days of its great heed, and will find that your American training and experience have not after all been of any real hindrance, but rather a help in the big and appealing work ahead. And so this is just a brief note to let you know that I am thinking of you, tremendously interested in you as always, and hoping and praying that your life may be one of great usefulness to your country and so to the world. Don’t let yourself get into the rut that so many of our returned Chinese students have slumped into through chafing because they have not been able to secure important positions and attained unusual prestige at the very outset of their careers. You will doubtless have a long, hard fight ahead of you, and a man isn’t worth much unless he makes it, and he is worth a lot if he makes it with his head up and his eyes fixed on ultimate victory. Your old football experience at Middlebury ought to help you here, for you learned, as all of us did in our athletic days, that the victory that really left a sweet taste in our mouths was the one attained only after the hardest kind of fighting and the temporary pain of hard knocks. And so all kinds of good luck and every highest success to you. Keep me posted, please, for no one will be more keenly interested in your progress then I, and no one, I think, will be rooting harder for you all the time. 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 18, 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/19f4ed069d1916459a3f2fdd19d7b797.jpg 1b315624f2887e2883939afa6263bc7f 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 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 Mary Sun, Elmira College, June 5, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, June 5, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your letter just received with its detailed description of your financial needs and worries. I am enclosing check for $500.00 as requested, and am glad to give my approval to your proposed visit with your Chinese friend. Be sure to let me know as soon as you arc able to just what your summer address is to be. Very sincerely yours, P. S. I find with this $500.00 you will have had $2400.00 since the beginning of the current school year. I am assuming that this will carry you until the first of the next year, but even on that basis the amount in question seems to me tremendously excessive and certainly far more than your brothers are spending at the same time, though they face, as you do, the regular expenses connected with a college course. 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 5, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun