66 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5fbe581affe43c0c5cf40d572f16f8dd.jpg 606ba603a0cb33653bbaa10b2517453c 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 November 14, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin November 14, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 14, 1929 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 Mr. Sun: Minister Sze has just sent me from London your letter of July 20 in which you tell me that Mr. Sze is to bring me a piece of carved white jade of the Sung period and a gift from you. Mr. Sze writes that he had intended to come to this country on his way to London but was deterred from doing so, and that he will consequently ship the jade from London to me if he receives my instructions to do so. I have just written him suggesting that he should do this if he feels that so valuable and delicate an article can be safely sent. Otherwise, I have asked him to hold the jade until such a time as I may know of some one who is returning from England to this country and who can perhaps be persuaded to bring your gift directly to me. I can’t begin to tell you how much I am touched by this latest evidence of your friendly good will. Nothing could possibly be appreciated or valued more highly by me than a piece of old Chinese jade. I can well recall how my mouth used to water when I was in China, if you will excuse this American slang, when I gazed on some of the wonderful pieces of carved jade that my eyes encountered in different places, and envied for once those whose material resources permitted them to own something of this kind. Of all the gifts that you and other kind friends have from time to time sent me, none, I am sure, will occupy a higher place in my estimation than this of which your letter brings the announcement. I can only endeavor through the poor medium of words to tell you the depth of my gratitude. A telegram received from Charlie yesterday advises me that he is sailing from New York today on this S.S. "Bremen" to take up his new work with the Legation in London. I am sure that he will realize there the high expectations that we cherish for him and will prove himself a valuable member of the Legation staff. Of all the Chinese boys which it has been my privilege to meet and know here in America, none has appealed to me more strongly than Charlie, and none has won more fully my confidence and good will. With warm personal regards and renewed thanks for your latest and most generous thought of me, believe me Sincerely and gratefully yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e8db335849332c4ee2aac662984880a9.jpg 7746739b6d1a8c83e5f86ddd6d0a7b3a 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 October 22, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin October 22, 1929 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 October 22, 1929 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 Mr. Sun: Thank you for your good letter of September 23, which has just recently been received. As I have already written you, and no doubt my letter will have reached you long before this, your instructions to Charlie were duly and promptly convened and accepted by the boy himself in the best of spirit. He is hoping very much, however, that he will not have to take on the new work in London until a bit later so that he will be able to secure definite credit at Columbia for the work which he has been doing there since early summer. If he has to leave too soon, that work will practically be thrown away, at least so far as academic credits are concerned. Charlie will abide by your instructions, however, and will be ready to cooperate fully with Dr. Sze. I will also see that your instructions are carried out in the matter of funds, and will provide the boy with whatever he requires to make the trip and get started with his new tasks. Yes, both Tom and Mary seem to be happy and doing exceptionally well. I have already told Tom that I did not look with any great favor on Syracuse for graduate work, and I think that he himself has come to this decision. Anyway, he has promised to come down as soon as his work at Middlebury permits and talk over the whole question with me. Trusting that your own health is being steadily re-established, and with kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, P.S. I sent you recently statements of the accounts of the children for the past year, and trust that those will have reached you safely C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f8a2069b534cb81903a63f4b9e03aab8.jpg b86edb1b5a7d550428fc7b5fd13193cf 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 William E. Souter, Shanghai September 30, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to William E. Souter, Shanghai September 30, 1929 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 30, 1929 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 Mr. Souter: I have your interesting letter of September 5 with the enclosures mentioned, and am forwarding a copy of Mr. Sun's letter to me to Charlie Sun at his Columbia address. I shall also, as I have already done, do my best to help Charlie get over his natural disappointment at the sudden and unexpected change in his prospects. From the tone of his letters to me, I feel that the boy has been exceptionally fine and manly in the whole matter, something which I should naturally expect from him, for he has proved about the most satisfactory Chinese boy with whom it has ever been my privilege to deal. That you write me of Mr. Sun, Sr., is not surprising. All of my friends, like myself, who have seen his photograph, which I fortunately possess, have been immensely impressed with the wonderful combination of sweetness and strength which his face reveals. He must be an unusual man, and I hope that his health and strength will long be spared so that his countrymen may continue profit by his devoted and unselfish labors in their behalf. With kindest personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns William E. Souter https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1bd77d3ca32a38e29adf9e8a7b7ab264.jpg f63052c3b4e562f10bb5436f54c5fb78 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1d0c5aa198e0acc55089e225b17c6f47.jpg 532a28159fa09d7d3486a551fa9abb4b 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 May 21, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin May 21, 1929 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 21, 1929 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 Mr. Sun: I have read with keen interest your letter of April 23, received this morning. We have all felt most anxious for you here as we have heard from time to time of your ill health, but have dared hope, and thought that I was justified in believing, that in recent weeks you had been recovering steadily your old-time strength and vigor. I do trust that I am not mistaken in believing that this is so. You have my own and the best wishes of your other good American friends for such a happy outcome. While it may be wise for Charlie to complete some more advanced study in this country, I am perfectly sure that in the boy’s present frame of mind it would be most unfortunate if he were not allowed to have at least two or three months at home after the close of his college course this June. The boy has worked hard and most conscientiously and has seemed to me, as I have had occasion to meet him, definitely fagged. I do not believe that he can get the needed freshening up in any other way than in carrying out his cherished hope of returning to China for the coming summer. Further, I am confident that he can plan much more wisely for the future after talking over his problems with you in person, for I do not think that at present he has a clear idea as to just what he should study if he were to continue his higher work at once. I hope very much, therefore, that you will give your full sanction to the trip home, for I am confident that Charlie himself would never feel really happy about it unless you did. He is too conscientious for that. As for Mary, I am growing increasingly optimistic, as I have already written you. Naturally I have read with keen interest the copy of the letter which one of her patients wrote you, and it does not surprise me at all. As you know, Miss Clemons, who [illegible] Mary for several years at closest range in my home, always maintained that Mary had a natural gift for nursing and that she would be successful in that line if she ever attempted it. Where Mary has failed thus far has been in her unwillingness or inability to handle satisfactorily the studies demanded at the Nurses Training School and which naturally, have required real intellectual effort, for nursing today is a real profession and those who practice it are required to do some hard studying, in the sciences, especially, in order to fit themselves for their tasks. I don't think that Mary has ever fully realized the importance of this ground work, though she has always taken hold with enthusiasm and efficiency of the practical side of nursing. What has given me special ground for increasing optimism has been the latest reports which seem to indicate that in her studies Mary has shown some definite improvement in recent months. Again thanking you for your letter, and wishing you and early and complete return to your old time health and vigor, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4c1c30b54462b846fd083d2caecc5e7e.jpg d6e2a244ec8c843e27b88d28e97667c0 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 24, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin April 24, 1929 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 24, 1929 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 Mr. Sun: Charlie writes me quite happily that he has definitely decided to return to his home this coming summer and has written you to that effect. My purpose now in writing you is merely to thank you for your decision to allow the boy to return, and to express my personal conviction that the decision is eminently wise. Of all the Chinese boys whom it has been my privilege to meet and deal with during the last thirty years, none has more fully won my confidence and good will than has Charlie. As I have watched him in his college course, I have been a little disappointed that the boy has not been able to enter more actively into the general life of the college, but this has been due evidently to the seriousness with which he has taken his responsibilities and the very earnest way in which he has gone at his studies. For the past year, the boy has seemed to me a bit fagged. In this country, we would be accustomed to use the expression as applicable to him of having "gone a bit stale". In other words, he seems a little tired mentally and physically, and I am sure that he will profit in the end by going home at the close of his college career this summer even if it should be deemed wise for him to return later for post-graduate work. Tom seems to be going along smoothly in his work at Middlebury, and the last report that I have had about Mary was a decidedly encouraging one, as I wrote you at the time. I watch with keen interest such fragmentary reports as we are able to get in this country of the conditions and developments in China. What a wonderful thing it will be for China and for the world when a stable and responsible government once gets authoritative control and the days of war lords and adventurers can be regarded as belonging wholly to the past. It is my sincere hope that this day may speedily come and that perhaps some of our old Andover boys may play their effective parts in bringing about this happy outcome. With kind personal regards, and trusting that your health is steadily improving, believe me Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2e2d055a517ac879fe2f3a1e7b5b716c.jpg bae3b9076f1e3077081d66040bd0c47a 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 Sao K. Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, London November 14, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao K. Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, London November 14, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 14, 1929 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 Doctor Sze: Your letter of October 30, enclosing that of Mr. C.Y. Sun dated July 20, has just reached me. On receipt of your letter I cabled you as follows: "Have instructed Charles Sun arrange passage England earliest possible date" Please pardon my seeming carelessness in not sending you an earlier message, but I had assumed that Charlie Sun himself would advise you direct of his plans. Only yesterday I received word from Charlie that he was to sail today on the S. S. "Bremen". Doubtless he will have reached you before this letter appears. I am sure that you will find Charlie Sun as fine a boy as it has ever been your privilege to meet. Of all the Chinese boys with whom I have been thrown in intimate contact for the past thirty years, Charlie, I think, has proved on the whole, as able and satisfactory a lad as any of the group. He has been conscientious and faithful in his work, always dependable, and yet possessing social qualities which have not led him astray into social excesses by any means, but which have rendered him as acceptable companion and friend to those who have had the opportunity to meet him. I feel sure that he will be able to render you at this time a real service and that as the years go by he will exert no little influence for all that is best in his own homeland. I am naturally very much interested in what you write me of the piece of jade which Mr. C.Y. Sun has so generously consigned to me through your good offices, nothing could be valued more highly by me than a gift of this kind and there is no one from whom more than Mr. Sun it would prompt deeper feelings of appreciation. Under the circumstances, I believe that it will probably be best for you to ship the jade direct to me, if this can be done in safety, for I do not know how soon if at all I could delegate some friend to bring it over in person. If you feel that there is any serious risk involved in shipping it, I shall of course defer to your judgment and try to discover some one during the months ahead who will be coming back to this country and who I can perhaps persuade to secure from you and bring in person to me the article in question. With warm personal regards, and wishing you every success and happiness in your life and work in England, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/37f60fe5215864e5d3cdc47cdf1bce85.jpg 0b6113db7d81d72b0173e9a60792998a 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, S.S. Bremen, New York City November 13, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, S.S. Bremen, New York City November 13, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 13, 1929 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 Telegram Relation A related resource Andover, Mass., November 13, 1929 Mr. Charles Sun S.S. "Bremen" Hamburg-American Line New York City Sailing from New York Thursday evening, November 14 Best wishes for happy voyage and successful and worth-while experience in England. Have utmost confidence in your ability and purpose to make good. Best of luck. A. E. Stearns Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/40fba1ce7d5511951d8e578f23898db6.jpg c87b3cb0c22bb4048e3eb605ac14c9d9 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Minister Sze, Chinese Legation, London November 9, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Minister Sze, Chinese Legation, London November 9, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 9, 1929 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 Telegram Relation A related resource Andover, Mass, November 9, 1929 Minister Sze Chinese Legation London, England Have instructed Charles Sun arrange passage England earliest possible date. (Signed) Stearns Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Sao Ke Alfred Sze https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/34faa51c043285c2b4c14a9a5ce6e73f.jpg a9ee993546440952177b1d972635944a 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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 Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, New York City October 29, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Telegram from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, New York City October 29, 1929 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 October 29, 1929 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 Telegram Relation A related resource Andover, Mass. October 29, 1929 Mr. Charles Sun International House 500 Riverside Drive New York City Have just received following telegram from Dr. Sze, London: "Please Ask Charles Sun come as soon possible. Am cabling Legation Washington issue him passport. Kindest regards." Please wire me your plans. (Signed) A. E. Stearns Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/17706855192301b3309dd5f079047fd2.jpg 1198cd99940e5c1ea405997e3407d157 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 30 Sun Siblings 1929, 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. October 8, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn. October 8, 1929 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 October 8, 1929 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 Miss Sun: At Dr. Stearns’ request, I am enclosing a copy of your account from October 10, 1928 to September 13, 1929. A copy of this account has as usual been sent to your father. Very truly yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun