69 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7db2c3d7324fd4333fc4502243ddb92b.jpg 84c9aa9039cab2ea7c2752e3a5ef6d1a 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 3, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., February 3, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your interesting letter of January 27. timed at 2 A.M., has given me a lot of pleasure and at a time when I was beginning to wonder what had happened to you. The fact is that when I wrote Tom a day or two ago, I was a little "sore" because it seemed to me that my earlier letter to you called for prompt attention. Not hearing anything, I felt wholly at sea in view of your father's instructions and my natural responsibility to him. Of course, when it comes to the proposed European trip, I haven’t a thing to say, for that particular proposition doesn’t interest me one way or the other except in far as it may interest you. From your father’s letter, I judged that he, at least, felt that he was offering you a real and unusual opportunity which he thought you would welcome enthusiastically. I doubt whether he would have suggested the trip, even, if he had not thought that you would feel that he was planning something well worth while for you. Under the circumstances, it seems to me that the only thing for you to do is to write direct to him and at once, and tell him just how you feel. My guess is that when he once learns the facts, he will agree with you that the right thing for you to do is to come directly home. In the meantime I am at a bit of a loss to know just what to do, for I can’t make reservations for you until I know this final decision, and these reservations ought to be made at a comparatively early date now if you are to get the kind that you wish. I can write your father myself, of course, and tell him what you have told me. I shall have to base my arguments, however, entirely on what you have written me, so that it is very important that you should get your own story before your father as fully and as soon as possible. There is a good chance that I may be in New Haven before the term is over, and if so I shall make an extra effort to hunt you up and talk things over with you in person. In the meantime, take good care of those babies that you are looking after, and take good care of yourself, too. 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 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 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/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/8312e432f5f18ec42cf68c931dd44810.jpg d514c2e01ec5fc3da4236e649a7e8f51 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., January 7, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., January 7, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your last letter and for the statement. I am sorry that you had so little time with Tom, but hope that you can arrange to get together again for a longer period before the winter is over. Charlie has written me several times and his last letter was a much more cheerful one than those that preceded it. Naturally he misses his old friends and the conditions to which he had become accustomed in this country, but I am sure that he will make the adjustments in time and will find a lot in England to interest and cheer him. It is too bad about that attack of laryngitis but I am glad that it did not prove more serious and that you have so promptly and fully recovered from it. Steer clear of bugs of that kind for the rest of the winter, for New Haven is not noted for being so free of them during the winter seasons as are some other cities and towns. A happy and successful New Year to you. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 7, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/de1e040bcccb7494e0695a657d7b8f6a.jpg 435996a2b1674166f6d3b378e943ed65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 17, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 17, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your note of June 14 reached me yesterday. Tom has been to see me and has decided to remain in Middlebury this summer and take special work in French in the Middlebury Summer School, which specializes in that language. Next fall he expects to take up advanced work at Yale. At least, that is the plan as I understand it at present. I hope you don't find the strain of the work in the isolation ward too hard and that you will have no serious difficulty in learning to sleep in the day time and work at night. It is quite a change, though, and not every one can make the new adjustment easily. Success and good luck to you. Sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 17, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/dd35e523599a4966307cdc21a125b152.jpg b6ac7db2fda912373da5a077d6a5ebcb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 6, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., June 6, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your good letter of June 3, and first of all wish to thank you for your birthday greetings. With my family pretty well [illegible], a birthday at present is a rather lame affair--something a bit different from what the birthdays need to be when you were a member of the family circle! I am immensely interested to hear that you are going to have a couple of months of psychiatric work at Butler Hospital. Dr. Ruggles is a very warm personal friend of mine, and will, I am sure, take a special interest in you if you tell him of your connection with the Stearns family. I am sure you will find the work immensely interesting. I am enclosing check for four hundred dollars as requested, and hope it will cover all our immediate and necessary expenses and have you enough to enable you to enjoy a really happy vacation this summer when the opportunity is given you. With all best wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 6, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/446963316a3b24d89148b118f7b5b46f.jpg d92d2a56053793a2174a85d51df9ae8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 21, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 21, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have just returned to Andover and find your good letter of March 12. Needless to say all you write is of the keenest interest to me, and I can’t help smiling at your enthusiasm over your work, especially when that work takes the form of caring for the wants of negro babies. After all, though, it takes just those straight human contacts to bring home to our stupid hearts the clear truth that the color of the skin counts very little, if anything in the Almighty's plans for the human race. Anyway, it is tremendously gratifying to me to feel that you have found the one job for which you seem so eminently fitted, and in which in consequence you are bound to get the deepest joys out of your life work. So continued success to you! Yes, I had several lovely visits with Charlies in London. He seemed dreadfully doleful and homesick over there, but cheered up greatly when we got together. Indeed, he welcome me when I first appeared at the Legation as if I had been his long lost brother. It was great to see him and good to discover in the end that he seemed to be getting adjusted to his new surrounding and finding them less and less distasteful as time went on. I can only send you a brief note now, for my desk is piled high with letters which have been waiting for my return, and we are closing the winter term today besides. Every best wish to you, none the less, and do keep me posted, for I enjoy everything I hear of your work and progress. 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 March 21, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/68c5fd7562774aea7b0eb00769a28e88.jpg 6d6f9b1c69f62dab7e2aac865a5d4b40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., May 14, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., May 14, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Thank you for your good letter of May 13. I am immensely interested in hearing of your work among the foreigners. It is a great experience, and you ought to be ready for about anything when you get back to China and work among your own people. From the fate at which they seem to be wounding each other over there, at present, you ought to have a lot to do. I do hope that the day may speedily come when these warring factions will stop their nonsense. and get down to the main task of straightening out China's troubles and putting the country soundly on its feet. You are certainly old enough to make your own decisions now-a-days, and I am perfectly willing to have you go to Ithaca for your summer vacation if that is your preference. It sounds like a good proposition to me. With all best wishes, believe me Ever 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 May 14, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/61a7cd064c537530d085fe7a5b305375.jpg 130918c5b553054dc1f9ccaedf5f7bf4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 1, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 1, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your letter of October 31, and am mailing you as requested a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your bank account and to enable you to face necessary expanses still ahead. I do hope that you and Tom are going to see a good deal of each other while you are together in New Haven. Tom needs a little cheering up apparently, as he finds the life and surroundings at New Haven a good bit different from those to which he had been accustomed at Middlebury. I had a fine letter from Charlie only yesterday and another from Tom in the same mail. Charlie gives me some interesting news of the doings of some of our old Andover boys now in China and intimates that he himself is getting somewhat accustomed to London and is in consequence not quite so homesick as he was at first. Tom clearly finds it hard to adapt himself to his new surroundings at Yale, but I hope that he, too, will in time find that the rough edges will rub off and that life will get increasingly smoother. My very best to you as 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 November 1, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bf27d9c2b2f6719df0505990700a8d20.jpg 3932db354108cf175e754ecfc5e3586d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1930, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., October 21, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., October 21, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have enjoyed immensely your letter, received this morning, and the story it tells of your work at Butler and your later work with the infant in your ward. It is a wonderful thing to be able to help those who are in trouble, whether that trouble be physical or mental, and I take immense satisfaction in the thought that you are going to be able to do just that among your own people in China in the years that still lie before you. So Arthur is a happy father! How the time flies, and how fast we all grow up! When you write him, give him my personal congratulations and good wishes, please. I hope you will be able to see something of Tom. Evidently he is a good bit homesick in New Haven, if I am to judge from the letters he has written me. and that is natural enough. He filled a big place in the life of the college at Middlebury, and the change is of the kind that is bound to bring something of a jolt. Tom's record at Middlebury was on the whole a fine one, much better, I think, in every way than I had dared hope it would be. But I was still hoping and believing, too, that after he gets adjusted at New Haven he will have a profitable and a happy experience there. When I am next down your way, which I hope will be soon, I shall certainly try to look you both up. In the meantime, success 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 October 21, 1930 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun