72 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7fb6998e9ca27e94e649895f99cc614d.jpg c7dcd1ee6573eee0ec3acd1c5c24fd40 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 23, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 23, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Requests three dollars for a hair cut. Agrees to visit President Atwood at Clark University. Plans to come to Andover for the weekend. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 23, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/10b71fd00f2ffdffd801923fdb834012.jpg 05dd9266cd893aa898c3805c89fafd50 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 23, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 23, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Acknowledges Stearns can't pick him up at Mont Vernon. Plans to come down to Andover. Wonders if his picture can be taken in Andover or Milford. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 23, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/553a7c0d10ad89f332d3648d03d4d8b9.jpg c990f28eb090ae3d4ef9d908690952ab 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 19,1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 19,1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Requests copies of a picture. Asks if Stearns is able to pay for copies. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 19,1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6538bac16a251dd24e8b4aac8cb50989.jpg 9ab4cd6e91ef30c31d74c7cae4bc7451 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 18, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 18, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, asking about spring vacation plans. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Manuscripts. Correspondence. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 18, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/440c856330ca268886d7d291a1568c6c.jpg 32cee8d85fc8662707494e2e51d9afc9 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 14, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 14, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Thanks Stearns for note and money. Discusses the weather. Is happy the snow is gone. States five boys were expelled. Asked if he will go to Andover the next year. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 14, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ace404b6e0e1b8e0d593f298e0d00ff0.jpg a0ef999acabc72a8cedee04203fa8c31 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 10, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 10, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. States he received a package with Chinese food in it. Requested several items, including hair oil, stamps, toothpaste, and others. Asks if Stearns could send the items or send the money and Alfred would buy the items. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 10, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1817486831147baaa03857d3a75657f1.jpg 60025d0c003bd1cac747caa9ace05d7c 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, March 9, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter sent from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Thanks Stearns for stationery. Asks if he should get his picture taken for the school yearbook. Asks how Stearns is doing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 9, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a2adedeecb1ff9f4f054017fda87d049.jpg 4e83e90902a0559808910974c84131a9 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 27 Folder 2 Tsai, 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 P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 8, 1927 Description An account of the resource Handwritten letter sent from Alfred P.K. Tsai to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Received incorrect stationery paper. Explains company spelled his initials wrong and sent lined paper. Request monthly allowance. Asks to see his sister on Washington's birthday. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred P.K. Tsai 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 8, 1927 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 Manuscripts. Correspondence. Alfred Tsai Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/019e66b49e146962f404da8c483c8fbc.jpg e7a79688fbc187bc36a1fecf04bb8b9a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b2f1cbe570a25e7f8c2f90eb8390358a.jpg eb86aea7a031b9de8827fd73c3a9f2d4 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 5, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, November 5, 1920 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Now that the members of your family have been with us long enough to get acquainted a bit, at least, and I myself have had a chance to come to know them, I feel that you ought to have a word from me by way of report at least. We are still living in such absolute confusion at my house, owing to somewhat extensive repairs that are being made, that my only wonder is that the youngsters have not grown utterly discouraged and been ready to seek another home. They have borne the order, however, splendidly, and with the finest spirit, and I am hopeful now that within the next two or three weeks at the latest we shall be able to give them some idea what the interior of an American home is really like. If they have not already formed some strange opinions on this subject I should be very much surprised. Let me say at the outset that I have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy even more keenly as the days go on, the presence of those bright and responsive children in my home. In using the word children I do not mean to include Arthur, who is a man in more than years, and on whom I feel I can lean and with whom I can consult with confidence and immense profit. I don't know when I have met a boy who has impressed me so favorably as has Arthur as a boy of character, stability and poise. The youngest members of the family are also entitled to their full share of commendation. Their faults, if they have any, are only those of youth so far as I can judge. Charles inspires affection. Thomas, though a bit impulsive and occasionally disposed to sulk, is at heart sound and increasingly responsive. Mary has won the affection of us all and fits beautifully into the home life, where no one could be more cheery, responsive and helpful than is she. At present the boys are taking their at the house. This is because of the complications involved in the servant question, which is always a very difficult question in this country. I am still hoping, however, that a bit later I may be able to keep all three of the children with me for all the meals. From all I can gather the three children are doing well in their studies at the public school. The first reports of the term have not yet come in but I have reason to believe that they will prove in every way satisfactory when they come. All three seem keenly interested in their studies, though they are a bit digressed to make too free use, in their private conversations, of their mother tongue, for the best and quickest comprehension of the English language. In due season I count on them to appreciate for themselves the desirability of strengthening their English by a more constant use of it, without in any way lessening their knowledge of and love for their native tongue. Please understand that this is a brief report only, and a little later I hope to write you more fully, though I have no doubt that the children themselves will keep you informed from time to time of their work, life and progress. If there is anything in these reports to suggest that I can, by a clearer appreciation of their needs and problems, be of further and greater help to them I shall count on you to advise me with the utmost frankness, for it is my earnest desire to co-operate in every possible way in order that the American experience and education of your boys and girls may be best advanced, and that the great sacrifice which you and they are making to this end may bear fullest and richest fruit. With kindest regards believe me always, Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 5, 1920 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9b3f5900c908d83c91e2d8e3dc5d85ba.jpg 75af3d8198226ec1dfe0e322b01f162c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/37f670bfedd815e658f90361166ade9c.jpg 924fc4754a0997def013a211c1fb2cbc 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 1920-1924, 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 Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to Chung Ying (C.Y.) Sun, Tientsin, March 7, 1921 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun, Let me thank you for your very satisfactory letter which reached me several days ago. I should have written you long before this but I have delayed in the hope of securing some fairly satisfactory basis on which to estimate a proper charge to make for the housing and care of your children. My only regret is that this matter has to be considered at all, for I am free to admit that I thoroughly enjoy having the youngsters with me. For the first few weeks they were a bit on the defensive, which was only natural, and I felt a bit apprehensive as to how the experiment was going to work out. But as soon as they found that they were among friends their reserve changed to warm friendliness, and they have been as responsive and as eager to cooperate as one could ask. Before deciding what would be a fair charge I allowed several months to pass in order to see just how my house bills were running under the new regime. I also talked the situation over fully with Mr. Robinson in New York, for I know that he had been back in the country long enough to appreciate something of the nature of the present high prices in America. As a result of all this it has seemed that a charge of twenty five dollars a week for each of the children would not be far from the actual cost to me, and hence I have made the charge on that basis. In Arthur’s case I am charging only the room rent, as he boards at the school dining hall, and at the customary rate obtaining in the private houses where our boys are allowed to room, namely seven dollars a week. I confess that the charge seemed to me at first too high and I had hoped that I could figure it at a lower rate. In this I was disappointed. The biggest and most difficult problem with which I have to deal is the servants. You can hardly appreciate its character. The excessive prices paid by our mills during the war completely demoralized the whole servant question, bad enough even before. Servants are hard to get in any case, and when secured they demand from three to four times what they received only a few years back. More than that they will generally refuse to work for a family that counts more than three or four persons at the table. When the children first arrived last fall both of my maids promptly struck for higher wages which I was obliged to pay to keep them. In spite of that they left shortly after, and since that time we have had to change many times. My housekeeper has had to spend many days in Boston in employment offices hunting for new maids. And in addition to all this we have found it necessary to employ a third maid to help for a few hours each day with the cleaning. My help alone cost me at present no less than thirty five dollars a week, and that does not include their board which I have to furnish. These details very likely have little interest to you, but I merely desire to acquaint you with all the circumstances that you may form some idea of the nature of my problem and the general basis of my estimates, Some of our food prices have already fallen a bit, and I can assure you that if a shrinkage here on in any other housekeeping expense makes it possible to reduce the charge mentioned the reduction will be gladly made, for I do not wish to make money out of the transaction, Were it not for the troublesome servant problem I should look upon the presence of these youngsters in my household as an unalloyed pleasure though not unmindful of the significant responsibility involved. I have also tried to view the situation from other angles for the purpose of checking up my figures. The charge at a local boarding house not far from the school is thirty five dollars a week. At the Phillips Inn, the small hotel run in connection with the school, the charge is still higher. Again the good boarding schools are now charging from twelve to fifteen and even sixteen hundred dollars a year, and as these schools are regularly in session only about eight months of the full year those who attend them must still meet the expenses of the other four months. On the basis of the arrangements which I have made for the children the total expense ought to be less than it would be if they had been placed at the outset in boarding schools. At the same time I think they are getting fully as much as if they were so located. Our local public schools are good and I have secured the cooperation of the superintendent in getting them the best teachers available. Miss Clemons, who has charge of my house, is deeply interested in her new charges and is unusually well qualified to give them what they need. For a number of years she conducted a private school of her own in a neighboring city and later taught in one of our best boarding schools. My own daughter had been under her care for several years and at was from this work that she came to take charge of my house and family after it was found necessary for my wife to go to a hospital. She is very fond of children, devotes herself without stint to their welfare, but is strict and insists on proper obedience. In my judgment the combination of the public school and the personal care that Miss Clemons gives offers as much as if not more than the best schools would ordinarily supply, at least for the first year's stay in a new country. Of course the children have in addition the advantage of being able to enjoy and profit by all that the big school here offers in the way of games entertainments, musicals, lectures etc. I should not dwell on all of these things if my problem were not a bit unusual, I should very much have preferred to sit down with you in advance and agree upon proper terms before undertaking to carry out my part of the transaction. Tat [sic] would have been the business like way of doing things: but of course that was out of the question. The fact that you have placed such complete and such unusual trust in me in leaving all details to my decision renders me all the more sensible of the obligation I owe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred 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 7, 1921 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