56 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/14363574ee86bde33d506ebe35c109e1.jpg 284c0debb7dd02ca7570a17e61ea1f93 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., February 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., February 5, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your note of February 4. I have already sent my apologies, so there is nothing further to cause either of us to worry. Just when will you be free enough from your work to give me a chance to see a little of you if I should happen to come to New Haven? I shall probably have to go down there before long to look over some candidates for our teaching force. If I do go, I hope to have a chance to talk with you and Tom about your plans. So please let me know when you will be free from your regular duties, and when if before these are over there will be any chance of my seeing you. With best wishes, 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 February 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e5d036a421ed0a3e3516b21dc56a6b4.jpg 5de3d1e87d4e2d622c0a4812df061dce 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 National City Bank of New York, London, February 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to National City Bank of New York, London, February 5, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Sirs: I am in receipt of your letter of January 23, enclosing a dollar draft on New York for three thousand dollars, representing proceeds from coupons of Chinese 5% Reorganization Gold Loan 1913, forwarded to you by your Tientsin office for collection, and with instructions to credit me with the aforementioned amount. May I trouble you to let me know who the sender of this sum is, since I am at present handling the accounts of three Chinese whose children are my wards during their stay in America. In all probability this represents a remittance from Mr. C. Y. Sun, but I am not quite clear on this point, and should be glad, therefore, to be definitely advised by you. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 5, 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 National City Bank of New York https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a1a60598d219c79f9b53345566567de7.jpg c171629d6531cb3abc0184d3245e3ebd 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., February 3, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 3, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Your interesting letter of February 2, with its most interesting documents covering your expenditures, has been duly received. Many thanks for both. I am returning the latter herewith after having looked them over with some astonishment and a good bit of satisfaction, too, when I recall how difficult it was in those earlier days to get you to keep an accurate expense account. I can’t help gasping a bit as I study these sheets which have involved so much meticulous care and labor on your part. My account book is at the house so that I don’t know just how you stand financially at the moment, though I am sure that there is a fairly good surplus in your favor - one big enough, at least, to take care of your expenses for the rest of the year, perhaps longer. Just as soon as I can look over the books and check I will make out and forward a check to you that will cover you for the balance of the term, anyway, and perhaps for the rest of the year. I have just received a find letter from Mary, so shall have to take back what I said in your letter about my disgust at her delay in answering my earlier letter to her. To be sure, she should have acknowledged it a bit sooner, but I am ready to forgive and forget under the circumstances. There is a good chance that I may have to come down to New Haven before long in search of one or two teachers for next year. If so, I hope that you and Mary and I can get together for a little reunion and a good old-fashioned visit. There will be lots to talk over. Trusting that the exam reports are going to be all to the good, and with continued 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 February 3, 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 Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/da578eeb6d2cc5f67cdbf27397d41480.jpg 112fa249c3148c95acf53a5b5ea1e019 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., February 2, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., February 2, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of January 29. Even if Mary has decided that she doesn’t care to go to Europe, she has no business to leave me in the dark as she has done, or even to delay me in making arrangements for her passage back to China. I have no interest in the trip to Europe beyond my wish to carry out the instructions of your father, which I assumed ware prompted by his desire to do what Mary herself wished. Your father wrote me in his letter that he had promised Mary this trip, and it seemed evident that he himself believed that he was doing a real favor which she desired and would thoroughly appreciate. Anyway, I wish you would tell Mary to write me at once so that I will know what to plan, for I am in duty bound to carry out her father’s instructions or else explain to him why I haven’t done so. I do hope your exam results will be all and even more than you had anticipated. Success and good luck to you! 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 February 2, 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/d18d832d3e82879a4ba34b2e5562a80b.jpg da3b0320542b1be04dc66d87a55ed62f 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., January 24, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read carefully and with interest your letter of January 22, just received. Don’t worry - I am not going to give you away, for I have a lot of sympathy with your feelings and I want you to feel that you can always talk with me with the utmost freedom about your problems and interests. If I can’t help you in matters of this kind, it won’t be from any lack of desire on my part, I can assure you. Very possibly I shall be in New Haven before the term is over, though I have no definite engagement at present to call me down that way. If I not, and can’t got there, I shall be tempted to have you run up here some time so that we can talk things over frankly and fully face to face. Anyway, I grateful to you for telling me how far I should go in stating your case to your father, and I will be very careful not to mention anything relating to your mother, but just re-emphasize in a general way the arguments I have advanced in the past in favor of your return to China, if only for a comparatively short period. By the way, did Mary ever receive my letter in which I wrote her of her father’s letter to me saying that he wished her to return to China after a visit in England this next summer. Your father asked me to make proper arrangements for the trip, including steamer reservations, etc., and it is imperative that I should act soon if these arrangements are to prove satisfactory. I wrote Mary some time ago, and very fully, about it all, telling her just what her father’s instructions were, but I haven’t had even an acknowledgment of the letter and am naturally worried. Won’t you see her and ask her to write me at once so that I may know just what I am do to? So cheer up, and good 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 January 24, 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/3ae4410762d5600322d4b6a7affc65fd.jpg 8d261a577f6a785eff3d445baa914e57 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., January 20, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 20, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read with the keenest interest and sympathy your letter of January 16, though naturally I am terribly sorry to find how thoroughly upset you are over conditions and your own situation. Anyway, I am glad to know that you have decided so definitely that you ought to go home, for when you wore here last year I couldn’t make up my mind as to just what you thought you ought to do or where you ought to be. I don’t know what I can do beyond writing your father that in my judgment you ought to be allowed to go home at the end of this year for at least a year’s time. That I am willing and glad to do, for I do think you deserve a break, at least, in your American work, and my own judgment is that if you are going to live in China for the rest of your life, you ought not to delay your return any longer than is absolutely necessary. It will be increasingly difficult for you to make the readjustments when you get back, and it will be hard enough at best. So cheer up, and I will write your father at once and see if we can persuade him that the home journey is the thing for you. I hope most earnestly that he will so decide. But what about Charlie? My guess is that Charlie would like to go just as badly as you would. Possibly I can bring your father to believe that it is now time for all three of you to go back and rejoin your own family. Don’t hope too much on the outcome of my venture, for I can’t tell just how your father will take my intervention. He may even resent it. The best I can do is to try, and that, as I have said above, I am ready and glad to do. So, once again, cheer up, and believe me with all best wishes, Ever sincerely yours, Before I write your father please tell me if it is proper for me to tell him that you have written me on the subject. 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 20, 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/36c5cbec04261996d56186c57bd08da3.jpg 2efc29c277b34d125824975ab7e07d4c 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., January 5, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 5, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: I have read with keenest interest your newsy letter received this morning, but I am sorrier than I can tell you to learn of the distressing news you have had from home. Such things must happen, of course, and they do happen to all of us, but so long as we are human and with human reactions, they are bound to bring their sorrow and distress. My sympathy goes out to you and Mary in fullest measure, but I am confident that you will face these hard knocks with the courage and control which both of you have been developing so finely in recent years I fully share your feelings that it would be well to break the news slowly to Mary of the death of her sister. Needless to say, I am distressed to learn that Mary has been ill in bed, but trust with you that she will shortly be her own good healthy self again. Undoubtedly she will be better off at work as you say than with time on her hands in which to think about her troubles. Curiously, I had already written Mary only two days ago a letter which ought to cheer her immensely, for it contained the news just transmitted to me in a letter from her father that after her graduation in June she was to arrange for a trip to Europe, which her father had earlier promised her, and then start back for China and home. Certainly China is the place where Mary ought to be, and where I am sure she can do her greatest work, for as you say, there is a large and increasing demand for nursing of the best kind in China, and Mary with her training ought to be able to offer only the best. And so with my deep sympathy for you in your recent losses go also my very best wishes for a truly happy and satisfying New Year. I am delighted to know that you find the work increasingly interesting. The fact that it is hard won’t hurt you a bit in the end. 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 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/07bf4c0b67011ec1eb3f582a1065a482.jpg 91f17d700f210823013238023ba0d801 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., January 2, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., January 2, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for your good note received this morning, and good luck to you on those State Board examinations. Thanks, too, for the combination Christmas present from yourself and Tommy, a present which I appreciate doubly because of the source from which it comes. It will prove useful, I am sure, in the days ahead, and will always have a fragrant little suggestion of two former members of my family circle. If you haven’t recently heard from your father, I have some good news to report to you, for only a couple of days ago I received a long letter from him in which he tells me of the plans he has settled upon for your return to China after your graduation in June. He says that he had previously promised you a trip to Europe, and since you did not take the trip at the time, he expects you to make it after your graduation and before your return to the home land. He has asked me to see that you have funds for this and also later the additional amount you will require to cover the passage to China. Evidently he assumes that you will go to Europe and then return to America, making the home journey by way of the Pacific. He explains also the method by which any balance to your credit should be transferred in gold dollars to the National City Bank of New York at Tientsin. These are matters, however, which we can talk over together at some later date, though if you will tell me just when you will be prepared to start for Europe after the graduation in June, perhaps it would be well for me to start inquiries in regard to your steamer reservations, etc. Naturally I am hoping that all this will come as real and welcome news to you, and will aid in making this New Year the happiest ever. Let me know what I can do to help you and count on me for all the help that it is in my power to give. With every best wish, 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 January 2, 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/0a2870f89d3d8676e149f9945e522e94.jpg 24e03c68519a1b2993bb9798dcec66f7 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, April 18, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, April 18, 1928 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 April 18, 1928 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have just read with interest your letter written last Sunday and am sorry to learn that your father has once more vetoed the nurse proposition. Curiously, after hearing from your Dean only a few days ago, I wrote your father enclosing the Dean’s letter and urging once more that favorable consideration be given to your expressed desire to train for nursing. As Miss Harris and I are both agreed that this would seemingly be wise, I dared hope that our joint recommendation might produce some effect. From what you write me, however, I am naturally fearful that we shall not accomplish much. In the meantime if your father has expressed his desire for you to take shorthand and typewriting, go at this at once and with all the enthusiasm you can command. At your age it will mean hard and steady work, but you can accomplish much even against the handicap of age, provided you will give the work your serious and constant attention. I am very much disappointed at the low marks lately reported from the Dean’s Office, for it is evident that, unless your standing can be distinctly bettered, the college authorities are not likely to be willing to have you return next year and complete the course. That would mean that a transfer to another college would be wholly out of the question I can’t believe that you need to or will be willing to face a real catastrophe like this and I am still convinced that earnest effort on your part can prevent it. Since your father has expressed himself so definitely, there is only one thing for you to do and that is to abide by his wishes and do the best that is within your power with the courses you are carrying. I shall look forward hopefully to later reports which I earnestly trust may be of a far more satisfactory kind. With all good wishes, believe me Ever sincerely yours, 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/de7350f33ea533a37d90da1829e43876.jpg 1e9d9ed9f16cecd3cf273826ebae8052 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bc9668d7595d7b33f2542a4aba1ae923.jpg 5d162be40b7ed97fd9bc0fef3bc75d40 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 17, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, April 17, 1928 Relation A related resource My Dear Mr. Sun: A short time ago I received word from the Dean of Elmira College that Mary's work in at least two subjects was very unsatisfactory and that her status in the college was consequently precarious. I wrote at once to the dean and asked for a frank analysis of the situation as the college authorities viewed it, and I am enclosing herewith a copy of the Dean's reply. Mary's case has worried me a good bit for some time. Early in the year she wrote me a letter, prompted evidently by her dissatisfaction with her work and distress over the situation in general. It has been my feeling that Mary has plenty of ability to meet the college demands, even on the basis of her present schedule of work, but that her utter lack of interest in most of the subjects she is taking and her failure to find in the general college course that which she believes will be of value to her in later life have completely undermined her ambition and that without that ambition progress has been rendered practically impossible. I still feel that, if Mary’s interest in nursing, for example, could be encouraged and permission given her to shape her work along that general line, it would mean a complete change in the picture, and for the better. Dean Harris evidently shares my views, though I do not recall that I have ever discussed this particular phase of the matter with her; nor did I know before that Elmira College provided a course of this kind. Very probably Mary herself may have told the Dean of her ambition, though I can only guess as to that. As I view the matter now, it looks very much as if the college authorities would feel that Mary's work did not justify them in allowing her to return her membership in the college much longer and complete the college course and graduate. Frankly, I should be very anxious as to the effect on Mary of a forced termination of the college career. Such a distressing outcome should be avoided if possible, and I am beginning to wonder whether that can be done without altering completely Mary's present course of study and allowing her to choose a different goal and one more in accord with her natural tastes and ability. I shall, of course, accept your judgment in the matter and urge Mary, as I have always done in the past, to abide by your wishes and do her best to justify your hope; but these latest reports from Elmira naturally make me anxious and lead me to wonder whether we are handling the case to the best advantage of all concerned. May I rely on you to advise me frankly on receipt of this letter just what I ought to do under the circumstances. Please give my warmest regards to Arthur, and believe me with constant good will. 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 17, 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 C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns