55 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bb0b27750ff017a21fbefbdf45208dfd.jpg 192595820a2cb1be6c35be781ca45e00 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, New Haven., Conn., April 28, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 28, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I am sorrier than I can tell you for the final decision of your father, and can readily understand your depression at the moment, so clearly revealed in your frank letter to me of April 23. It is difficult for me to know just what to say, except that I admire your courage and your readiness to accept your father's instructions. That means that you have yourself in control and have developed those traits of character that make for stability and, in the end, rugged manhood. Some way, I can’t help believing that eventually you will [illegible] the feel that what seemed most discouraging at the moment proved under the test of time to have been for the best. Anyway, I know you will give the work still ahead of you the best you have in you, so that whatever turns up later that will mean that you will be just so much better prepared to deal with life and its problems and deal with them right. In the meantime, I shall hope to get a chance to talk things over with you and shall be ready always, as I have been in the past, to consult with you and help you just so far as it lies in my power to do so. By the fine record you made at Middlebury, you won my confidence and good will to a degree that would not permit me to do anything less than stand by as a friend, something that I have always tried to do, to be sure, but perhaps at times in the past with more misgivings than I have today. And so continue to keep your courage and your poise, and the best of luck 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 April 28, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/085f9bfacd69d4062dd225418b1014df.jpg 2d89f13e6c7befe001627b967fda74f9 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn.. May 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn.. May 5, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 5, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mary: The trunk has been sent and should have reached you ahead of this letter. If it doesn’t come through promptly and in good condition, let me know. I finally located it in the cellar, pretty well covered with dust, but so far as I could judge uninjured in the recent moving process when house and all in it were carried from Chapel Avenue over on School Street. Be sure to keep me posted in regard to your need of funds, for your father has asked me to see that you were amply provided with money to cover the traveling expenses and more. When you need to replenish your bank account, therefore, I shall be glad to send a check. Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d5ac1a66bbf16ec71fb730cabe6ff06e.jpg aa580c0bd6e0f07d151e4e06d7a02592 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. , April 23, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. , April 23, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: At last I have definite word from your father that the proposed European trip is to be abandoned and that you are to come directly home as soon as you have completed your course and secured your diploma at Yale. Congratulations! I only wish that your father had been equally friendly to Tom’s request to go with you, but he still insists that Tom should remain in this country until he has completed his graduate work at Yale. And so I am writing to ask whether you wish me to make the steamer reservations for you or whether you propose to do it yourself. No doubt it can be done through some good agency in New Haven, and if you are planning to go on the same steamer with your friend, as you earlier suggested, very probably you will wish to make the arrangements yourself, though of course you will have to count on me to supply the necessary funds. Please let me know your decision, however, since I am anxious to get busy on the proposition at the earliest possible date if the responsibility is to fall upon me. 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 April 23, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cd7a40bfd2b244bae38b3c7cf9aced13.jpg da2139f17de1a5a319dcf182e2a8b930 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, New Haven., Conn., April 1, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., April 1, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Many thanks for your most painstaking explanation of your expense account. I didn’t for a minute mean to put you to all this trouble, and the only point with me was that I could not quite understand why the two remittances this year should have come so close together and another one required so soon. On studying your account more carefully, however, I find that apparently the total remittances for the year, even if two of them do happen to come close together, are not likely to be much higher than those of last year. Hence I am going to send the check anyway, and trust you to keep your expenses within as reasonable bounds as possible, especially in view of the tremendous loss your father has to suffer on account of the exchange whenever he makes a remittance. Don’t think for a minute that I do not appreciate and am not mighty happy over the change in attitude towards the handling of money which became pronounced in your case after you went to college. Nothing pleased me more than that, and I have always felt that you handled the situation when at Middlebury in a remarkably satisfactory way. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why I got unduly nervous when I thought you might by chance be dropping a bit from this high standard. My best to you. Ever 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 1, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a33785c5044c59df57a1f9c2c3fff8c.jpg ca6009d6af8fb24ee79f41f642381d9e 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, New Haven., Conn., March 31, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., March 31, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 31, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thank you for your good letter of March 28, with the expressed sentiments of which I concur almost without reservation. Just why you haven’t heard more definitely from your father, I cannot understand. I have heard nothing myself for many weeks, and I do wish that I might get a clearer statement of his plans. No wonder Mary hesitates to make definite reservations when she can't be sure whether her first step of the journey is to carry her eastward or westward. I am still hoping to be in New Haven before long, and if so I shall make an extra effort to get together with you both so that we can talk things over frankly. In the meantime, it looks as if we would simply have to keep our patience and wait a bit longer in the hope that some more definite word may come from your father. Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a7e0e078bfb8c77df1744201479871a3.jpg d3119efdf9b95fcd4d2b36ed99932c55 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, New York City, March 28, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New York City, March 28, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 28, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Tom: I have your letter and the elaborate graphs or memoranda or whatever you call than covering your expenditures. The latter are most interesting, but really I haven't quite the time to interpret them. Please just write me frankly, and under a few headings only, where your money has gone. In other words, the main items, of course, are board, room, clothes, etc. My wish is to see just how these balance up. As I sent you five hundred dollars only this last month, I can't for the life of me see why another remittance is required just yet. Last year I sent you five hundred and fifty dollars in December and that lasted until the latter part of March. Of course, if another remittance at this time is going to carry you through the collegiate year, I should Just as soon you would have it now as later. Last year I sent you a remittance in May. I had supposed that that would be about the time that you would require one this year. Please straighten me out on this, for I am at a little loss to understand the whys and wherefores of your present financial stress, if such it be. I am still waiting word from your father, having heard nothing in reply to my letters urging that you be allowed to go home and suggesting that Mary would prefer to give up the European trip. It is too bad your father as that slant on "learned scholars”, although it is a natural Chinese inheritance, of course, and one that is in itself most commendable. My own judgment, however, is that if fewer of the Chinese students who have cane to this country in recent years had returned to their homeland as "learned scholars”, and instead has set out to acquire knowledge and experience needed to help solve the practical problems which confront China today, a good many of the troubles of recent years would have been lessened materially, if not prevented altogether. Anyway, I shall be keenly disappointed if your father does not feel that it is wise for you to come home this summer. Ever yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/fe4086ed4c83d734445c655914dac0d7.jpg f368d444ae860e5d3cc9b4489eb0c1aa 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. , March 28, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. , March 28, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 28, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thanks for your letter received this morning. No, I haven't heard anything further from your father, though I wrote him two or three times urging that Tom he permitted to go home with you, and that you he relieved from the trip to Europe, which doesn't seem to appeal to you. Now that I think of it, there is just a chance that I did not argue on this latter point, though my recollection is that I spoke of it, at least. I did urge very strongly, however, that Tom he allowed to go home this summer. No word has come in answer to my letters, so that I don't quite know what to do. Fortunately, travel is seemingly going to be very light this summer, so that an early reservation may not be required. Under the circumstances, I Imagine that our best policy is to wait a little longer and in the hope that we shall have some more definite word from your father. If I don't get my expected chance to drop off at New Haven and see you during the spring, I do hope you will find it possible to run up to Andover so that I can at least get a glimpse of you before you start back lot the homeland. In the meantime, I will look up your trunk as suggested and forward it to you. I hope it can be found, but since my house was moved last summer. I have sometimes found it a bit difficult to locate my own belongings. With all best wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cdd39e45ebea26e0fa4903b5f7848a4b.jpg 4762d0134b07c7961523438347f6ffaa 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 9, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 9, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 9, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thanks for your letter received this morning. No, I haven't heard anything further from your father, though I wrote him two or three times urging that Tom he permitted to go home with you, and that you he relieved from the trip to Europe, which doesn't seem to appeal to you. Now that I think of it, there is just a chance that I did not argue on this latter point, though my recollection is that I spoke of it, at least. I did urge very strongly, however, that Tom he allowed to go home this summer. No word has come in answer to my letters, so that I don't quite know what to do. Fortunately, travel is seemingly going to be very light this summer, so that an early reservation may not be required. Under the circumstances, I imagine that our best policy is to wait a little longer and in the hope that we shall have some more definite word from your father. If I don't get my expected chance to drop off at New Haven and see you during the spring, I do hope you will find it possible to run up to Andover so that I can at least get a glimpse of you before you start back lot the homeland. In the meantime, I will look up your trunk as suggested and forward it to you. I hope it can be found, but since my house was moved last summer. I have sometimes found it a bit difficult to locate my own belongings. With all best wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c3fcaf83e261a329e550ad7c8cfb03ba.jpg 2352ccdf97f9f069740515151a1214ec 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 Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. , March 4, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. , March 4, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thanks for your good letter, which evidently came while I was away from Andover earlier in the week. If I remember correctly, though I haven’t yet had a chance to look up your father’s letter, your father approves heartily of your remaining in this country so as to be present at the regular University graduation exercises in June, and to receive personally your diploma at that time. All of our recent correspondences has been based on the assumption that you would not start for home until after that event. Consequently, if you are able to find a good job, especially one that will give you further experience along the lines of your training, to fill in the intervening time, I should accept it by all means. When it comes to the three weeks’ vacation, I don’t quite know what to advise. A trip to Oklahoma is a pretty long and expensive one, but you are entitled to a good vacation, and if that trip seems to offer the best thing in its line, I am inclined to believe that your father would approve of the expenditure involved. Just as soon as you can send me a statement of your accounts, I shall be glad to see that you have additional funds if they are needed. In the meantime, success to you on these examination tests. 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 March 4, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e15a500ec610a14be4734638017e320.jpg 526b2ca9baeebc6d2ea452472c1c446f 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 Catherine P. Bullock, Manchester, Mass., February 9, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Catherine P. Bullock, Manchester, Mass., February 9, 1931 Relation A related resource My dear Miss Bullock: Mary Sun, of whom you inquire, is just about to complete her course at and to graduate from the Yale University Nursing School. She can be reached at that address, or at 350 Congress Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut. I am sure that she would be delighted to hear from one of her old friends. Mary's father has recently written me instructing me to start Mary back for China some time early this coming summer. While she is to complete her course at Yale shortly, the actual graduation exercises, I believe, do not come until June, and she will in all probability remain until these are over. 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 9, 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 Catherine P. Bullock Dr. Alfred E. Stearns