77 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ecb6ab50a73f348e60249b2b5e7c2043.jpg 6076dd658fed304f4199952ddf9e3e27 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/35b11146a1384c3d69c4e7a61ac79247.jpg 35d3789846cb4c55d5dc8692caa0ab62 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7d5de3462462d02b6706881d73bbdf20.jpg 6545b3e2a4ef7dd541645889bf39b360 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 July-December 1927, 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, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 21, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 21, 1927 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 August 21, 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 Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/620457d5859623aa700d22112dd94289.jpg b0ae1d78529981613051cb09488db6a7 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 Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven, Conn., November 10, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Thanks for your good letter of November 8 and for the detailed account you have given me of your expenditures to date. I am enclosing a check for five hundred dollars to replenish your account, or rather, to increase its size so that you may not feel nervous as to your financial status. Five hundred ought to carry you for some time, as the heaviest expenses of the year, barring the tuition, have already been met, and Christmas vacation ought not to draw too heavily on your balance. I don't know about your physical condition, though I had always supposed it was about as good as could be asked. If you have any dentistry to be done, however, don't put it off, please. It never pays to do so, and most of us live to regret our shortcomings in that respect. I am delighted to know that Yale is getting more bearable and that you are not so lonesome as formerly. Don’t forget that you can never expect in any large university the friendly and chummy atmosphere that you find in a small college. You will, however, in time develop your own circle of friends and will find life pretty interesting and worth while after all. My very best 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 November 10, 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 Tommie [Tom] Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7aa0513f8de0fdfa8ba2ca1d331ca1aa.jpg 8c4b936ddb5c6702647ad42591f97ab5 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 July-December 1927, 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, August 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, August 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Many thanks for letting me know where you are, and your plans for the future. I hope that the time won’t hang to heavily on your hands before college re-opens. With all good wishes, believe me. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 29, 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 Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/59d7cf1e71c0b7b6cb97e41416ee819d.jpg 68b9c7a2a21bc7614310ced9f81063f0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/1321f80b7bb3e7c78f068f177c430b74.jpg 4c62c68c9f48a41dbba0e1a74f140174 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 July-December 1927, 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 Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 24, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 24, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles 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 August 24, 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 Correspondence Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/95cff80e65e3a2d987889fbde2bacbeb.jpg 9edeba144faaf5f67947783ad7e5a75a 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 Postmaster, New Haven, Conn., December 29, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Postmaster, New Haven, Conn., December 29, 1930 Relation A related resource Dear Sir: Will you kindly send the package mentioned on the enclosed card and addressed to Thomas Sun to: Mr. Thomas Sun C/o Miss Mary Sun 350 Congress Avenue Hew Haven, Conn. I am enclosing stamps to cover the postage. Very truly yours, Secretary to Mr. A.E Stearns Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Secretary to Mr. A.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 December 29, 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 secretary to Dr. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2cd35dd520a3b0064ba360ec7d06840a.jpg 2508113307b76b0a2333cf8adfd87bb4 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 July-December 1927, 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your letter of August 24 has been read with very great interest. I should much prefer to discuss with you in person the proposition suggested, rather than attempt to reach a decision at this distance. I have decided, however, to fill out the application as requested and am returning it herewith, leaving you to complete the form and send it on to Norwich, if you so desire. I can't quite think of you as a military man, for it seems as if your natural inclinations and tastes were of a higher order. On the other hand, if there were a stable government in China, or if your military knowledge can aid in establishing one, I should favor the scheme most heartily. Military men of high ideals like Gen. Leonard Wood, for example, can do wonderfully constructive work in the world and of the very finest kind. The average military man, however, is content with much less important things, and often become a mere troublemaker. I am sure that you would be actuated by the highest motives in whatever profession you engaged, so that I am perfectly willing to endorse this plan of yours, if you really wish to carry it through. I should do so, however, on the understanding that your father would approve. On that point I am not qualified to speak, though probably you know how your father would feel. Anyway, I can see no harm in filing the application, for probably it could be canceled later if you desired. Even if you decide on some other profession, a year of military training at Norwich would be bound to prove of real value. Though, of course, it is possible that you might invest a year to better advantage if you were going into another line of work. I shall hope to find an opportunity to talk the plans over with you in person, in the not distant future. For since I have recently been elected a trustee of Amherst College, I shall probably have occasion to visit Amherst oftener than before. Trusting that the coming year of college will prove to be best of all to date. With kindest regards, 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 Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Charles Sun, MIT Dorm, August 29, 1927 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 29, 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 Correspondence Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/73292628bfcfd7b87f0dd4d3625fe1d2.jpg 69dfe6406e38bce515883db2dd1078ee https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2c2b0646d39be598d9306f96effaff40.jpg 99e54a5b78751e6f5fd433eb0216ffaa 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 July-December 1927, 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 Postcard from Charles Sun, New York City, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 2, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Postcard from Charles Sun, New York City, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 2, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles 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 September 2, 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 postcard Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/547392bdd0d41e7fba41d4b02410df16.jpg 353ccb725c3da7ab7571837592627bc8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cd3f14f493a76bb6ce81d251b8de7357.jpg 9f7e693be3a0f032a1a4615e2598fd79 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0e9f15a4904fe59d0e46d0555703bd0b.jpg a31e6a609bca6cca8167d1fd73be230e https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/94605e97721e9bc7c229b3dddbd74d86.jpg 54ba27703ea1e78a0852c5d21dadbac8 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 July-December 1927, 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, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 1, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, to Alfred E. Stearns, September 1, 1927 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 September 1, 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 Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/cb252eaacd2156f836a04548066c6970.jpg a1c38ef59b6716001afe98c023ec8af9 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/. Relation A related resource Dear Mary: Your letter of September 1 has just reached me and I am filing with your accounts, your statements of expenses to date. As soon as I return to Andover, which will be within the next day or two, I will send you another check and also forward a check to the college for the $350 that will be due on your tuition for this year. I like emmensely [sic] your suggestion of taking a nurses course at Yale. Frankly, both Miss Clemons and I have always approved of that desire of yours to study to be a nurse, and I shall only be to glad, therefore, to use what influence I can with your father to persuade him that this is not only one of the most honorable professions, but one for which you seem well adapted and in which you could render your country real service. The Yale school is one of the best, and a degree from it would be well worth while. With all best wishes, believe me. Always Sincerely yours, 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 July-December 1927, 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, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, September 6, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns, Home Camp, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York, September 6, 1927 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 6, 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 Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/4f9d4b50c3c4a1cd9f7ef3cc3216ee54.jpg d5c2d18fa45c4dbea5ef5dd9e701eec8 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8e32316bb3bc42c5b0de709c7f5df04d.jpg a6252ff09deaaefdab169bb5a410e593 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 10, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred Stearns to C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, January 10, 1924 Relation A related resource Dear Mr. Sun: I have your very interesting and friendly letter of December 4th, and beg to thank you for the sentiments contained therein. The children are all in excellent health, I am glad to say. Arthur was with us for a few hours during the Christmas holidays, but went to New York for a visit at the time that Charles, Tom and Mary went to Washington in response to an invitation from Dr. Sze, your Minister to this country, to visit him at the legation. We celebrated the Christmas holiday itself together at Andover with several other boys as our guests, and then the party broke up for the rest of the vacation period. I am sure that the trip must have been very profitable to the children, though from their own reports I am afraid they did not see quite so ranch of our capitol city as I had hoped they would. The weather was in part to blame. I allowed Charlie to drop Latin at the beginning of the year, for he found the work extremely difficult and the time and effort given to it were apparently undermining his work in other subjects. It is getting to be a question in my mind whether the boy is perhaps a bit over-conscientious in his studies, as he rather unwittingly admitted to me recently that his head seemed to get tired rather easily. I shall watch the situation carefully this term and see that steps are promptly taken to lighten the load if it proves that he is attempting a bit too much. Tom has begun work on the banjo and mandolin, which if successful will give him a chance to play in the school orchestra, something that he is very desirous of doing. If he shows sufficient talent he can of course take up later sane other instrument that is likely to be of more permanent and genuine value. May I take this opportunity to thank you most heartily for your overgenerous Christmas gift. I have been greatly embarrassed by the receipt of anything so elaborate, realizing its value and the fact that it is certainly not deserved. My appreciation, however, of the exceptionally generous and friendly spirit which has prompted the gift is very deep and sincere, and my thanks are from the heart. In this connection may I make a suggestion, which I trust will not give offence, but will be fully understood by you, and that is that any gifts in the future - if there are such - be limited to trifles. After all it is the spirit which accompanies the gift which sets its chief value, and I have been greatly embarrassed for the past two years by two factors in the situation; first, the large duties I have had to pay on gifts of this kind, and which have amounted in toto to much more than what I have been accustomed with my limited means to invest at Christmas time for all the members of my family circle together; and, secondly, a seeming misconception on the part of the children as to the nature and purpose of the gifts in question. I have been greatly distressed on one or two occasions, as has Miss Clemons, to learn that the children have intimated to some of their friends that some of the gifts in question, at least, were of values far in excess of those recorded on the actual inventories, and that some of these , too, were prompted by actual requests or insinuations on our part. As you doubtless know, on one or two occasions and in response to very definite requests on the part of my good friends in China, to the effect that they would be glad at any time to make small purchases for me there should I desire, we have placed orders, so to speak, but with the definite purpose of settling for the amounts involved by crediting the sums in question to Mary’s account. I am sure that the situation has been fully appreciated by you and others in China, but it very evidently has not been by the children, and since it throws us open to even the possibility of misconception on their part, I am very sure that it will be better for all concerned to have the gifts discontinued entirely. As you of course understand, the arrangements at the house have to be made, from necessity on my part, on a business basis, and I have attempted to the very best of my ability to figure the expenses of each of the children on an exact pro rata basis, so that I should neither gain nor lose materially by their presence in the house. For this reason also it would seem best to discontinue the presents in question. I hope most sincerely that you will not take offence at anything I have said above. It is my desire to be perfectly frank with you, just as I would wish you to be with me, and it is with no lessening of appreciation of the generous and friendly spirit which has always characterized your dealings with me that I feel prompted to make the above suggestions. I believe that their adoption would perhaps save us the possibility at least of further embarrassment, something which cannot wholly be avoided in view of the seeming inability of the children themselves to appreciate the situation and the exacting duties imposed by our government here on importations of this kind. I am sending you this week a slight token of my friendship and esteem, which I hope will reach you during the New Year's season and will prove not unwelcome. With friendliest regards and heartiest good wishes for the New Year, believe me, Always 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 January 10, 1924 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