59 10 3636 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/6c15a9741292821f96c87a828c26da0a.jpg 916de509d80cb66e87190de1a6d257d2 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cff9e62760ae3b2bd7ebeef6be1a50a0.jpg 3e96f973f65f63ed7f0eb36eefa754cb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/13e6c932297f3658ae96e0ff5a712b47.jpg 595d115644255531aa2c132522786716 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, March 31, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, March 31, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun 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 My dear Dr. Stearns, Your letter put me in a rather ticklish position. It is not that I am unwilling to make a broader-itemized report, but it is the fact that I put down every cent I spent exactly in the tables I sent to you. Besides those, I have no other record, except the bank-book stubs. But the difficulty there is that I made practically all the checks out to "Cash" because I prefer to pay bills in cash if there are any bills to be paid; but mostly because when I draw out a check for $20.00, I use that money for everything under twenty dollars and record such expenditure in those tables I sent to you. But I shall try to make an estimate, because I can not be exact when I have not the tables to guide me. By my check-book stubs, I notice the following items: Yale University 235.00- tuition and room Whitlock’s (book-store--for typewriter) 21.00 Arena Garage 7.00 for February Student Laundry 4.23 Pressing Co. 5.50 Edward Malley’s (clothing)- 5.00 Comm. of Motor Vehicles 14.75 Ludwig’s garage 5.00 for March Photo Reflex 3.00 first payment The above $299.98 were noted in my stubs as I stated above, but the other $200.02, or except whatever I have left, were drawn out in parts by checks make out to "cash”. Out of that amount, $200.02, I remember these following items: Easy-chair at Malley’s 20.00 Photo Reflex—last payment-- 9.50 29.50 I also made a trip to Middlebury, but I do not remember the exact amount. However, do not let me to mislead you. I did not pay for things in checks made out in ’’cash", in which case, I would have noted, but paid for things in cash currency. That is the reason why I know little of my expenses outside of the records which I sent to you. Subtracting the $29.50 from $200.02, there remains $170.52. Out of this amount, I had to pay, in currency, my board, school books for the second semester, other school supplies, clothing, trip to Middlebury for fraternity initiation, laundry not listed above, tailoring, recreation, and every other expenditure which I did not mention. I received the last amount from you on Feb. 6. The number of days which elapsed till to-day is 54. Granting that my subsistance rate for board is about $1.50 a day, my board bill for that period would be $79.00. Subtracting that from $170.52, there remains $91.52 for all my other expenses which I paid in currency for a period of 54 days. I have left in the bank $27.00, and subtracting that from §91.52, there remains $64.52 which I used to pay for laundry, recreation, trip to Middlebury, and all other expensed which I did not mention such as clothing, haircuts, etc. The average per day would be $1.194. The following table may be of some advantage to enlighten the matter: Expenses as noted by bank-book stubs $299.98 Expenses not noted, but remembered 29.50 Total known expenses without record $329.48 Estimated subsistance rate at $1.50 per day— for 54 days 79.00 Left in bank 27.00 106.00 106.00 Amount accounted for as expenditures 435.48 Received-2/6/1931 500.00 amount accounted for as expenditures 435.48 amount for expenses not listed above but listed in records such as recreation, trip to Middlebury, clothing, tailoring, school supplies, etc., etc, 64.52 Therefore, I had but 64.52 dollars to pay for other incidental expenses for the period of 54 days from Feb. 6 to March 31, to-day. These incidental expenses are laundry, recreation, trip to Middlebury, clothing, school supplies, postal supplies, telephone, etc. and many others. The average, as stated above, for each day is $1,194 plus, which is indeed economical considering I had to pay rather large amounts on one day and spend none the next. I hope the statement will make you understand better what I conveyed in the records which I sent to you. I am frank to say that I have been as economical as possible. I realize the silver exchange situation and how hard it is for Father to furnish me money in gold dollars, and consequently I spent just what I had to and no more. I hope you can trust my judgement in being economical, which to my mind is wise spending. Expenses may be a wise expenditure one day and not wise the next. I am just trying to figure out wise speeding in relation to myself, and I hope my judgement will stand the test, of which I am sure. I try to hide nothing, because every cent which I spent was down in the records which I sent to you. It is impossible to make a inclusive broad statement so as to include every cent, because there are so many incidental expenses which can not be classified under any broad heading. For example, I can not very well classify $.50 for haircut under tailoring, and I can not classify 5 ¢ for telephone under Postal supplies, etc. That is the reason why I made a rather detailed record-report to you. Every time I have to make out a new sheet for recording, I balance expenditures with balance, and I can make it balance to the cent. Therefore, every cent was recorded, and they are on the records for you to examine. You have reason to think that I am a little extravagant because of my Andover School days. But those days are past and gone forming a part of my past history. Ever since I went to college, I tried to reform myself, and feel that I have succeeded. In examining the above tables in this letter, I wish you will keep one thing in mind. I can not be exact to the cent without the records to guide me. Those amounts which I listed because of the bank-book stubs and those which I remembered are exact to the cent. But as for subsistance rate for board and others, I can not be positive. The amount I have left in the bank is correct. But I can not be positive as to the expenditure of the $64.52, because I have not the records. "I can guarantee that you will find every thing I listed in this letter in the records. But as for expenditures of from 4 ¢ for a paper to larger amounts for a shirt or a suit of pajamas, I am afraid you have consult my records. They are listed to the cent. I am afraid I can not tell you any more than I did, because I know no more. With the records as compared to this letter, I think you will be able to arrive at some conclusion. With kind regards, I am Very sincerely yours Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas 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/9edfc770161c306f53762234b95badba.jpg c6333c8548978b541bb8828de3cf0df1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8006d1a8b8ec0a047ca4e6f3372066cd.jpg af357c1e06ade802df7785633e454bb2 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 Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, April 12, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, April 12, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun 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 12, 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/59c397aa4cf5c7ce16c5ce8af30b9b1d.jpg 95ad7895868508d49f005dc2aff0dd4b 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 15, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., April 15, 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 April 15, 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: Thank you for your letter of April 12. No, your father hasn’t written me about any hangings or anything else that he had sent me, and your letter gives me the first intimation that I have had that anything of this kind was to be expected. I am sorry to hear that the hangings have been injured on their journey, but will write your father and explain what you have told me and express, of course, my appreciation of his kindly thought. I am glad to hear that you are coming to Andover before you leave, for I shall want to see you once more before you sail, and that will be the best and perhaps the only chance that I am likely to have, though I still hope to get to New Haven before the current term is over. Very 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/e90f25cc1cb793089af9f8041db34c69.jpg d3ef61241af5179350ed0611bc0e1892 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 Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, April 27, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun to Alfred E. Stearns, April 27, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Sun 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 27, 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/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/67279d62d03cc2947bac98707a93d965.jpg 8d406ff25860600bb56cafce48239a9e 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, April 23, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., to Alfred E. Stearns, April 23, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun 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 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource 1294 Yale Station Office of the Headmaster Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. My dear Dr. Stearns, New Haven, Conn. April 23, 1931 To make a rather long story short, I received a letter from home yesterday containing the crisp statement:--"Since you have been away for such a long time. But you have already entered Yale University. It will be a great pity to stop your work at this time------why can’t you spend another------? I hope you will be patient for another year time flies like an arrow------- ." It is unnecessary for me to fill out the blank spaces, for their meanings are apparent. Thus ends another story brought about by almost a whole year’s planning and hoping. Like other Oriental sons, I shall obey the Fatherly orders without complaint, but regret in some form can not be helped but creep in the outcome in some way or another. As I remained awake in bed during the small hours of the morning, thoughts of all nature and sorts came into my mind. Among the most prominent is "Who am I?" Born a Chinese and brought up an American! Indeed, a sad state of affairs. I still owe my allegiance to my country, but what, where, and how is my country? From that, the thought of re-adjustment comes into the mind in the most logical and potent way. To describe my feelings would require a ten-volume masterpiece. Since I am not capable of such interpretation, I shall leave it to your free imagination. No meditation is complete without the sentamental [sic] side. I have been away from "home" for eleven years. These eleven years are those which I should spend with my "people" in order to learn to be one of them. But--that was not so. In all the letters which I receive from home, I notice the strained attempt of happiness. One can not be so brainless so as not to realize that Mother is unhappy without seeing one of her OWN CREATION with her own blood. I am not so selfish or narrow sighted so that I do not realize such things. One can not be so ignorant and heartless. In plain words, I am homesick. Then there is another aspect which must come into consideration, and that is my nature. You probably know that I am not exactly the studying kind so as to enjoy to sit in the room and read Rouseau [sic], Karl Marx, or the like. If I do have to admit it, I am the hustling kind, never satisfied with doing the same thing all the time. I like to get out and work--that, at least, is something different from what I have been doing for the past eleven years. I appreciate the value of a scholarly education, but I think I prefer the kind of education which one receives by living and trying to get the next meal, -- adventure, romance, and the thrill of responsibility. That is what I want. I want to look after something. Now the only thing I have to look after are the books. Do not think for a moment that I am defying Father’s orders. On the contrary, I think his advice is sound and well-planned for most people, myself included. I am just lamenting the fact that my vagabond life is being prolonged—vagabonding alone with only the illusion that I may arrive at the desired pedestal, and then face it with a possible empty heart. Ah, what a situation for a poet. I am making plans accordingly and will go ahead without a murmur of complaint of dissatisfaction. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun 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