99 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9ef65098867a9e3a84a7b6a7f555ef9d.jpg 2991b3ebdb7d12ee2b8ca86a0f71be6b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/30edefb5788bd34ee0da9e8679f935ef.jpg 419ef8edac216cb84575e9282af76e0b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a1342bda9958dabfd03275338fbb51c.jpg 5a1e16d88e08eadf5ad0728ed0ad10d4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5d86e4a27990c02f69b368e3626042be.jpg 2a3809b3d7c3b0e040d10f213aabaa58 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns May 27, 1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 May 27, 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 Relation A related resource Shanghai, 27th. May 1930 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. U.S.A My dear Dr. Stearns, Your most kind and interesting letter of April 7 and 21 reached me, and I most heartily thank you for going so very fully, and with so much sympathy, into the problems relating to the educating of my children. I have just come to Shanghai for a much needed rest and change after a very sad and trying time at home for many months back. After a long spell of illness, with one sickness upon the top of another, I lost my 3rd daughter. We had the very best attention for her including night and day nurses, but she wished me near her most of the time. The constant attention required of me when I was in poor health myself, and the fact that I was the only member of the family that knew there was no hope for my daughter's recovery, just wore me down, and I had no time, or even thought, for anything else. This is the reason I did not feel able to even try to meet Dean Goodrich. It was not Mary’s fault, for she did write me that the Dean was coming to China, but I was entirely taken up with my sick daughter to the exclusion of every other thing, indeed I quite forgot all about Mary’s letter. I am sure you will understand, and if you get a chance to explain to Dean Goodrich, please tender his my apologies, I very much regret that the special circumstances prevented me from making arrangements to meet him. And it would be a favor if nothing was said to Mary or Tommy. It is of course possible that the news of my daughter’s death will filter through to them, but my thought opportunity for him to do some hard work in preparation for his coming course at Yale. I have given due consideration to your very kind and thoughtful words about Tommy’s popularity, with the danger of his taking on so much of American ideas & ways so as to possibly hamper his future readjustment to the life and atmosphere in China. A father naturally appreciates very very much all the kind things you tell me of the large place Tommy has made for himself in Middlebury College, but he will soon be thinking of leaving all his kind friends there and meeting the new conditions among strangers at Yale. This will be a new angle in mixing with men and should work out for good. Now, as to your suggestion that I might think over the possibility of Tommy taking a year at home in China before pressing on with his further studies in America. From a practical point of view, I do not think it feasible, for the pull of family-ties, and probably his own disinclination to tackle his further studies after a year's break, would, I am sure, mean the end of his ever going back to America. And, after all, will his waiting for another year or so in America to undertake his specialized studies make much difference to the question of his readjustment to his life and work in China? Tommy is young enough to successfully face this question after his Yale course of special study. All things considered, I feel he should carry on from Middlebury to his Yale course and attain to proficiency in the work he is going to specialize in on his return home. I trust my viewpoint on this meets with your acceptance, for like you, I have tried to look at the problem all round, keeping in mind particularly Tommy’s future when he sets out to find his feet in China. I thank you for your statements of account for Mary & Tommy and covering the period from October 8, 1929 to April 21, 1930. I am very glad to hear that you think the necessary repairs can be made to the blackwood-stand. Please have this done at my expense, and I shall be glad to hear from you that the repairs have been done in entirely satisfactory manner. It is not easy for me to express my gratutude, as I would like, for these two letters of yours, so clear and asympathetic and yet well covering the whole ground. I always feel that I never succeed in expressing what my heart feels of very grateful thanks for your large personal interest in my children. With kindest regards and most cordial good wishes, I am, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/21ba6f19d9dbe5d13d319267b9f189d2.jpg 0590110a4dfd1114671f357a464cc7fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8fbacc20e3f26ab7b9f188cd0096fc56.jpg 1bfc76746e92d2e58ca04d08ea03cf01 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/978877c454b0eb0a95083ec0fbda350e.jpg 01dc32d65dc7f0057dfedfebbd7bb63d 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 18, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns February 18, 1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 February 18, 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 Relation A related resource 18th February 1930 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy Andover, Mass, U.S.A My dear Dr. Stearns:- Your most kind letter of December 27th reached me about a fortnight ago just at a time when my daughter Dorothy was very critically ill at home with pneumonia complicated by pleurisy and a very bad carbencle on her back. I must confess that her condition was so serious that I had to allow everything to be in abeyance till now. She is somewhat better and said by her doctor to be out of danger. Your sound advice about Charlie’s future was, however, immediately followed as I have already asked him by telegraph to discontinue his further studies and also written to him that I would leave everything to his own judgment in case he does want to come home. Regarding the question of a higher degree I would like to say that in China undue importance has always been attached to it because one’s future career general depend upon it to some extend. In Charlie’s case I do not pretend that I am one of the exception but my sole object was to have him thoroughly educated and specialized in diplomacy, as we have not too many who are well qualified in such profession in our foreign service. The reason why I have never disclose this idea to you or Charlie was due to the fear that the exposure of same might offend the sensitive feeling of those who were but armatures in our diplomatic service. My dear Dr. Stearns, please allow me to state here that whatever you have written with such frankness and sincerity has touched me deeply and I fully appreciate your genuine friendlineSS to me and to my children, I was perhaps more or less influence in being too particular about children1s higher studies by the fact that qualification of some of the returned students are not to the expected standard which they should possess thus causing me to take more drastic view in the case of my children. Regarding Tom I think he is still so young that he can well afford to pursue further study and specialize himself in Government Administration. I learn from Charlie's home mail that Toia is going to Harvard after he graduates from Middlebury. From Tom's own letter I understand that he going to study his French all over again upon your good advice. He is feeling ever so happy for his being elected chairmanship of his Fraternity, editor of his college Chapter paper and he felt greatly honored. So far he has not talked about coming home nor have I mentioned this point to him because I well know once they are back home it turns problematic whether they will ever be so anxious to go abroad to finish their studies such have always been the tender influence of the mothers over their children. However, should you think there is no necessity for Tom to take further studies please be mn kind enough to tell me so, and then we may try to arrange some means( if possible ) to enable him to obtain some practical training for a year or two in one of your Government Offices. In such a case I do not know whether I can impose upon your kindness to approach your Government upon this delicate matter provided it is permissible for a foreigner to obtain such experience. Referring to the black wood carve piece which Tom sent, I must apologize for not having advised you in time. This carve piece was first entrusted to a friend of mine who was going to London via America But at the last moment he changed his plan so I had to get it packed and rush through the post office in order to catch the steamer that will reach the States before Christmas. Thus I forgot to write and tell you the said black wood carve piece was meant for the stand to support the piece of old jade which I have written you before, Dr. Sze has advised me in his recent letter that Madame Sze will bring the jade over to America to you in the near future. I would feel greatly obliged if you will send the broken pieces of the black wood carve piece to me at my expense as it is very easy to have a new one made here according to its measurements I beg to advise you that I have ordered a remittance of G. §3,000.00 ( three thousand ) for my children’s account from the London Office of the National City Bank of New York. I expect it will reach you some time in March. With best wishes from Yours very gratefully C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/03f3e231afdab08c62dce04c27127c17.jpg 48d902a11f988f8f5f9c4334045abf8a 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to A. E. Stearns December 18, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to A. E. Stearns December 18, 1929 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 December 18, 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 December 18, 1929 Dr A.E.Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., U.S.A. My dear Dr Stearns, I have much pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of Oct.22 and Nov. 14, and pleased to learn that Tom and Mary are doing well. As to which college would be best suited for Tom's graduate work, I feel certain that Tom will follow your eminent advice. Probably you have already given the necessary council by now. Regarding the little piece of carved old jade which I entrusted to Dr Sze to convey to you, it is indeed most kind of you to think of it so highly. It represents but a slight token of my sincere appreciation of your kindness and deep interest which you have shown so untiringly to my children. I do hope that it will be delivered to you from London safely. I have not yet heard from Charlie since he left America. With your high praise and encouraging remarks I hope that he will fare well and live up to your expectations during his further period of acquiring practical experience and learning in England. We had the first big drop of temperature yesterday and some hard snowing, here. Hoping that Winter in Andover this year is not so severe. With greeting of the Season and the best of wishes. Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e10bb95b79eb038db06aa3f265ce9c3.jpg 704d0a6becc9f8a999c1893baff0d3f2 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns October 1, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns October 1, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 October 1, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource TIENTSIN, 1st October, 1931 My dear Dr. Stearns, I feel like disagreeing with the opening paragraph of your very welcome letter of the I5th, July. I know it is not a "little” you did for my children but a great deal, and I am quite unable to express my deep sense of gratitude for all you have done. The "Discipline" you exercised, in the early days was probably not at times appreciated by them, but it did them a whole lot of good, and this they now fully realized. Tommie is now hard at work getting hold again of his mother tongue, but he has not yet taken up any position. Mary has seen the Rockefeller-Hospital people in Peking and generally having a look around with a view to find an opportunity to use her training as a nurse. They are both enjoying the time at home and getting in touch with things after their long absence from China. I wish to thank you for the two statements of account you send me(Mary’s & Tom’s) showing the balance in your hand, to be, on Mary’s account G.$3,963.80. & on Tom’s account G $2251,99, a total of $6,215.79. As I mentioned in a previous letter, please be so kind, as to hold, this money for me meanwhile, I shall let you know later on concerning it. It has been a great regret to me that I have never been able to meet with you personally when I could tell you a little better than writing can of my esteem and regard for your great service to my children. Assuring you of my best wishes and. kindest regards, I remain Yours very gratefully C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/acebce81802c5b7d5794d1c5b63ccbb2.jpg a13a331bcc350dc70d95167b78a8a4a4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c2724490aadb874292e5db15aed238f9.jpg e4f69d3a2fc5cbbc77e362da21b92eef 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns August 22, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns August 22, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 22, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Shanghai, 22nd, August 1931 My dear Dr.Stearns, Mary and Tommy have arrived here safely after an excellent trip, and although I am still in very poor health I managed to go to Shanghai to meet them. As I saw my two children after ten years separation, my first thought was of how much I owe to you for all your care of my children during these years. I have tried at other times to express gratitude to you, and now I feel even more grateful but cannot find words to express myself as I would like. As I see how the children have grown and developed in character and knowledge, I know, that for what they have attained to, by far the largest part of the credit belongs to you, for you have been so kind to act in the place of both father and mother to them while they were in the States. Whatever balance you have left over on the children’s accounts you might, at your leisure, send me a statement of account, but please do not remit any money here, as I shall be writing you later on, and may have some other use for the money. It was a big effort for me to take the journey to Shanghai, for I am very weak through a severe nervous breakdown. Mary hopes to go to Peking soon, and will get in touch with the P.U.M.C. there to whom she has a letter of introduction from the Dean of the the Yale Nursing College. As to Tommy, nothing has yet been settled on, but he is rapidly regaining his own language and is full of zeal to get in touch with people and things in his native land. We are all leaving for Tientsin in a day or two, and Mary and Tommy are looking forward to being home once again. Again expressing my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to you for your very very many kindness which I deeply appreciate, And with best wishes and kindest regards, I remain, Yours very sincerely, C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/01e8996bd7f87061997c04253eb6676b.jpg 7594c11bab262ed979114676d753c9f4 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/093b58b63bf990aeea51ae23a9bb1992.jpg bdc363589a532ccfbb3b1cf7757585f8 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns June 12, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns June 12, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 June 12, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource 44 Cambridge Road, TIENTSIN, 12th June, 1931 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Phillips Academy Andover, Mass. My dear Dr. Stearns, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your long and very kind letter of April 25th. the contents of which have had my very careful consideration. Please accept my hearty thanks for your frank and most friendly expression which I value very highly. As you know, I have been separated from my children for tea years .and when it comes to a question of their development during that period of time, and what is best for them, I realise that I am not in a position to know them and their present needs as well as you do. This realisation prompted me to accept your sound and much valued advice to allow Tom to return to China, so I sent you a cable as follows— “Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover. Thanks for your advice please order Tom come home and pay him extra one thousand dollars if he refuse visit Europe. Sun." I had already made a promise to Tom of a trip to Europe (just as I did to Mary) but in case he does not wish to make this trip, please give him his extra G.$1000-in addition to the necessary passage-money. And please be so kind, as to advise him how to handle this money, as you must have done to Mary. My dear friend…now all my children will soon leave your great country where they have secured not only a good education but also a very high training under your unfailing guidance and unusual consideration and care. I know the task has not been a light one and you will permit me to take this opportunity of expressing my deepest appreciation of all you have done in, so many ways for my children. My poor words cannot find expression as I try to tell you how very grateful I am. But this I know, that whatever good service my children may be able to render to our humble country in the coming years, by far the major portion of the credit belongs to for any success they may achieve. In coming to a decision on this important question of Tom’s return, I have been under great strain, for my present state of health is not at all satisfactory. But before I close this altogether inadequate letter I wish to express my profound gratitude and a million thanks for all your wonderful help to my children. I am sure we both hope and trust that they will live up to our expectations. With kindest regards and. every good wish, believe me, Yours very gratefully, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/161ca3848ae8a4a0c853fe31d69b38ad.jpg b545b4003478390c0bc58856f6b0b309 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/411f3e2dd6d3a1322bf0cf895c9bfe26.jpg 986d1cd6d889c6e4d48414bb28466760 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 2, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns April 2, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 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 Relation A related resource 44 Cambridge Road, TIENTSIN, 2nd. April, 1931 My dear Dr. Stearns, Very many thanks for your kind letter of 27th February. I must apologise for not advising you of that $3000- and I regret very much that I caused you all the trouble and bother of having to write over to London to check-up on it. I wish to thank you for sending me the accounts for Mary & Tommy. By this time you wil1 have had my letter of the 15th. February with the explanation, making it clear that Mary is not now going to take the trip to Europe but is coming home as soon as she completes her course and gets her diploma at Yale. I also confirm what I said in my last letter, that you should give Mary the $500-for her passage to China and an additional $1000- With regard to Tommy and your suggestion that he might take a summer-trip to China, I have given the matter very careful consideration, with just the one main thought before me, that his education & training should work out for his lasting good in enabling him to take a creditable place in after life. It is only natural that he should miss his sister when she leaves for home but he will get over that. I recall that Mr.Liang’s sons spent 15 years in England to get a thorough education and when one left for home, the other one felt badly at first but remained on and completed his studies, all to his lasting good in his future work in China. I feel that if Tommy came here for the summer it is almost certain that he would not return to America. And Yale influence is very great here and his coming home now might be construed to mean that he had been a failure, and this would be fatal to his future life and prospects here. Tommy is young enough to go right on and finish his post-graduate studies. So putting everything together, I feel sure that he should continue in America until he completes his studies. You will add one more to your many kindnesses if you will be so kind as to place this matter before him in your own persuasive way, so that he will be encouraged to go forward and finish his studies. And I am here reminded of how very much I owe to you through a long period of years, for all your untiring and wise assistance to my children in our endeavor to give them a worth while training and education for their future success in life. I can never tell how much I feel, please accept a father’s most grateful thanks for your never failing help. And with my very best wishes and kindest regards, I remain, Yours very sincerely C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c7b9ce660cec203c1d078c22151bb4f5.jpg fd1f5aec7fddc4a6d38d51f3f0f98fc7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f7ea059fe7fa8ba2125f4b14e809e742.jpg 6455b9be23d9eb235c0bf754078ae1c0 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ce43c642501346f6f82816f2218709b3.jpg 5119b98dc79ee48c2d10da2d52c3f206 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun to A.E. Stearns November 8, 1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun to A.E. Stearns November 8, 1930 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 November 8, 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 Relation A related resource 44 Cambridge Road TIENTSIN, 8th.November, 1930. Dr. A. E. Stearns Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. U.S.A. Dear Dr.Stearns: After her graduation in June and receiving her diploma Mary will be returning to China .and it will be necessary to make all arrangements ahead so I am writing you now with some details. I had previously promised Mary a trip to Europe, and although she did not take this trip, I have to keep my promise, so you might please arrange that she have $1000-which is about the sum this journey to Europe would have cost. In addition you might please pay her a further $500-to cover her passage to China and incidental expenses. With regard to the $1000-she may use a part of it to buy presents she may wish to take back with her to China. But after everything is covered she will have a good balance in her own bank account which balance she should have transferred, in gold dollars, (not in silver currency) to her credit with the National City Bank of New York, Tientsin branch. Please tell her to be sure and have this balance credited to her at Tientsin n gold dollars. If you find there is not enough to the credit of Mary in your account to meet all of this $1500 you might please make it up from the balance on your account for Tommy. And on the other hand, if you find there is a balance over on Mary's account after meeting this $1500- then this balance over you can place to the credit of your account for Tommy. With regard to Mary’s return home, it may be necessary to make reservations etc now, and her best plan would be to go to Cooks, or the American Express and have them make the necessary train and steamer reservations etc. The southern sea-trip from San Francisco via Honolulu would be better as it is not nearly so stormy as the northern route from Seattle. I trust I have made all this clear. In all $1500-to be paid to Mary of which she will want approx. $500-for her tickets and incidentals to China. As I have said she may want to spend, something for presents, but she will have s good balance over to be transferred to her credit in gold dollars with the National City Bank of New York Tientsin branch. Mary should be able to give the instructions to her banker, but she may want a little help from you in case of any difficulty. She can give the Bank her home address— 44 Cambridge Road, Tientsin-so that the transfer can be easily verified. I trust all these arrangements for Mary will not be troubling you too much. To some extent I realise how much you have done end are doing for my children and I appreciate all your care and thought. But for all your valued assistance through the years it would have been an almost impossible task to give them the best possible education and care to fit them to take their places in their life and work in their home land. And I never cease to express my very grateful thanks for all your very kind help, but my words are unable to convey to you all that my heart feels for all your kindness. With best wishes, I am. Yours very sincerely 8th.Dec. 1930 P・S・ From the above letter head you can see that this letter had left on the machine over a month. This was due to some sick persons at home and myself was not too well neither and confined in bed. The death of my wife delayed this too until now when I have to let Arthur type this, who just came back. Please pardon me for disclosing you my private sad news but I want to explain why I delayed in answering your kind letters. I want to thank you heartily for all these troubles I asked you to do for Mary and also to acknowledge the various kind letters of yours up to the present time. Thank you again. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f9e7822986eeaf91f08c6477bedec803.jpg 4553b7abc3ee3fe0b9c3924074c6c683 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/160758f0ef5ac2a60bfde50e1507484e.jpg 3c7f7b42c5292da3de256bd32c084258 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns July 25, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns July 25, 1932 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 July 25, 1932 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 Tientsin July 25, 1932 Dear Dr. Stearns; I wish to thank you most kindly for your good letter of the 22nd June, informing me that you have been advised by the National City Bank of New York of their wish to withdraw at my request the balance of funds in your holding in Andover and enclosing the notice from the Andover Bank indicating that your check for $6,328.82 had been cancelled, and the statement from the National City Bank of New York indicating that the amount in question had been paid. I note that the amount finally remitted is larger by $113.03 than the amount shown on your earlier report; this, as you say, represents the interest received from your local bank. As indicated by your letter, everything is just as I wished and it couldn’t have been done in a wiser manner. I beg to thank you for all that you have done and the trouble gone through by you. I am very glad to hear the kindly and friendly interest you take in the Far East and I thank you in return for the little incident which Professor Forbes had at the Brown College Commencement. I quite agree with you a great deal more than mere lip service has to be done before we can attain that ideal statement, where peoples of all nations live in concord regardless of race, color and creed. The high thinking people of your great American State have set an example, and it is up to the rest of us to cooperate to the fulfillment of this ultimate attainment. I think am expressing the sentiment of all my children when I say that we deeply appreciate your saying that you will always think of them in a very real sense as members of your own family; because during these ten years of their sojourn in the West you have been to them not merely a gardian but a second father, who, though not the author of their birth, has been kind and loving to them as I myself would. I think I have told you in my last letter written in Shanghai that Mary is married. She now stays in Shanghai, where she will take up hospital work in August. Arthur and his family after a short visit to Tientsin are now also back in the South. Tommie, who is with the Kailan Mining Administration, is at present in the town of Lin Hsi, where he is undergoing a vigorous course of preliminary training requisit during the probational period. Charlie is with us at home. He is just yet undecided as to what to do, but whatever line he follows, he will probably go South either to Shanghai or Nanking. It goes without saying that the old contact the children made with you in America will be carefully and willing preserved, and it shall be a pleasure for all of us to keep alive that contact by maintaining a regular correspondence with you. Please remember that any news concerning the person of good old "Al" (as my children sometimes call you) will be more than a mere interesting welcome to the Sun family. With sincere wish for your health and most cordial regards, Very sincerely yours, C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., U. S. A. P.S. I am sorry that when writing the above I did not realise that I have, not yet said anything about Charlie since his return to China. He arrived in Shanghai on the 7th of June, while I was also in the city on business. He stayed at Arthur’s house but we had occasional chats together, from which I am glad to say I find that he confirmed what you have said of him. He impressed me more than ever with your kindness to my children and the unfailing attention both you and Miss Clemons had given them during their stay in the States and to Charlie even after he had gone to England. It would be hardly adequate for me to say that I thank you, but insufficient as it is, will you please accept this my simple but most heart-felt expression of appreciation for all that you have given to my children. Charlie is now back with us in Tientsin. He is either going to join the Diplomatic Service again or find some other kind of job in Shanghai. I personally feel that as his training in college was along the political line, he should by all means continue what he has learned and also what he has actually experienced in the London Legation. Whatever he does, I trust that he will not disappoint what you and Andover have given him, and I have confidence that that he will not do. Charlie, I think, has written you himself; I, therefore, leave the rest to himself to say. C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/684f9d93fc1dd6dc8b5e8e342e17490b.jpg 65912f0014993aa36474066ece10f91f https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/481c277214deffa9a774c0dbc7576d1d.jpg bd806dae300cb283ce86df66606215a1 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 1930-1932, 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns May 2, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns May 2, 1932 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 May 2, 1932 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 May 2nd 1932 My dear Mr. Stearns, Your most kind letter of March 16th was received and hereby acknowledged with many thanks. It was a great pleasure to learn that your health, not only restored, but improve d* after the operation. Your impartial statement on the Japanese question is deeply appreciated; and it is doubly significant, because it came from a man like you. You asked me to give you some inner reasons for the Japanese action. It is a long story and will require volumes of writing if one is to be explicit, and I don’t think I am in a position to tell you everything correctly. But anyway I shall try to relate to you what I know. I believe that the real motive of the Japanese to cause the present trouble is mainly an attempt to re-enforce the twenty-one demands which are familiar to the whole world. They took a series of actions as follows: — First. Before the Mukden occupation took place, the Japanese instigated with false rumors to arouse the Korean feeling to such an extent that a few hundred innocent Chinese were killed without interference from the authorities. Second. In the Wanpaoshan case, the Japanese took the law into their own hands and started irrigation by diverting water from the main river without the consent of the Chinese Government. Third. Mukden was occupied on the night of September 18th, 1931 without the least bit of provocation and warning and continuously they occupied the whole of Manchuria and formed the so- called the Manchurian Government or Manchukou in order to obtain what she could not get in any other manner from the Chinese government in connection to the twenty-one demands. Fourth. The Tientsin incident started, as that of the Mukden affair, without the least bit of indication the night the attack was launched. The attackers were Chinese morphine fiends who were customers to Japanese suppliers. They were forced to take the front line after being reminded that they would be mowed down by machine guns if they retreat. In this manner, hundreds of morphine victims were killed. Fifth. In the dreadful Shanghai affair, the Japanese took the excuse of a slight quarrel between a few Japanese priests and the people in the Chinese City. It was nothing of any importance that can be called " serious". The Japanese consul-general made four demands with which the Mayor of Shanghai painfully and reluctantly complied. The document of this compliance was delivered at the Japanese consulate-general between one and two o’clock, and the Japanese consul general had declared his acceptance and also signified his satisfaction of the settlement. About four o’clock in the same afternoon, the Japanese admiral occupied the Chapei district where they found no Chinese soldiers. This was confirmed by the eye-witness of the Reuter agency who was at the Chapel railway station when the Japanese took possession of that region. The very first things the Japanese started to do was to bomb from the air the Commercial Press and other industrial factories. The former was a gigantic concern and was the main source of supply for our educational purposes. And the atrocities inflicted upon the inflicted and defenseless inhabitants within that region was so horrible that it is too cruel to repeat in writing. There is another thing which the Chinese could not understand, and that is the International Settlement should allow the Japanese to land within this area and fight the Chinese with it at their back and the Shanghai River(Huang Poo River)at their right thus making it impossible for the Chinese to outflank them in the manner with which they can do to us. For one instance, that may be worthy mention, that is our soldiers had once driver back the Japanese forces back to the Yangtsepoo Road and came quite near to the International Settlement. And our poor soldiers had to retreat in order to avoid International complication. This certainly will contribute something new to the rule of War. Tom is joining the Kailan Mining Administration in Tonshan as a member of the senior staff. He leaves to-morrow, but still hopes for a chance that some opening in the Government service might be found for him in the future. Mary is also leaving for Shanghai in a few days to offer her voluntary service in a Mission Hospital. Charlie will arrive in June 7th on the steamer Cange of the Lloyd Tristino Line. And Arthur is serving the Government with a nominal pay of $50- per month and happily accept the situation quietly. It is indeed a joy to have all my children back with me. As for me, ever since I came back to Tientsin last year from Shanghai where I helped to conduct the Famine Relief Campaign I have been suffering from certain kind disease which cause numerous eruptions on my body. Now I have fully recovered and expect to go down South again in a few days to see what service I can render for our common cause. Regarding the balance of Mary’s account of $3963,80, and Tom’s of 2251,99. totaling $6215.79., I have written you a letter (copy of which is herewith enclosed for your reference) gave it to the Tientsin Branch of The National City Bank of New York to advice their home office to collect from you the said sum of $6,215,79. Please note in that letter I used the word ($6,215,79) or “thereabout”. I did so because there might be some Charges against my children’s accounts not yet entered. I wish to take this opportunity to thank you again for all the kindess you have done to my children. Trusting this will find you in better health. With Kindest regards, Yours most sincerely C.Y.Sun C.Y.Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns