Letter from May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 19, 1908
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Letter from May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 19, 1908
Subject
Letter from May Wright Sewall to Mr. Alfred E. Stearns, February 19, 1908
Description
Typed letter sent from May Wright Sewall to Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Wishes to see Mr. Vung Lung Wong and his family. Wishes to see Stearns seeing Wong. Wants to help Wong carry out wishes of father. Believes Wong, his wife, and child would be happier in a different arrangement.
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February 19th. 1908
Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts
My dear Mr. Stearns
I thank you warmly for your kind letter of the 17th
about Mr. Vung Lung Wong. I have engagements in New York which will occupy the next fortnight. I expect to be in Cambridge again on the 7th. As soon as possible after that date I want to come over to Andover and see Mr. Wong and his family. Before I have any long visit with them, I should like to have an interview with you. I do not really know how trains run to Andover, but my present thought is to come to Andover on Tuesday, March 10th., and I should be much obliged if you would write me in advance of that date suggestion another day if that should prove inconvenient, for an interview with you, I think we must do something to enable Mr. Wong to carry out his father’s desires. It seems a sacred duty and I want a conference with you as to the best way of approaching a very delicate subject.
I am certainly not devising a plan to weaken the domestic
ties in this family. I think we have much to learn from the Chinese respecting domestic fidelity, but I do believe that Mr. Wong, the little wife and the baby would all be happier as well as actually better off, by some other arrangement than by that which I understand now exists.
Of course I write you in perfect confidence. Thanking
you for the frank kindness of your own letter, and anticipating with pleasure an interview, I am,
Very cordially yours
May Wright Sewall
P.S. May I venture to say that my interest in coming to Andover is augmented by the fact that my father was a student there in the early part of the nineteenth century.
M.W.S.
Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts
My dear Mr. Stearns
I thank you warmly for your kind letter of the 17th
about Mr. Vung Lung Wong. I have engagements in New York which will occupy the next fortnight. I expect to be in Cambridge again on the 7th. As soon as possible after that date I want to come over to Andover and see Mr. Wong and his family. Before I have any long visit with them, I should like to have an interview with you. I do not really know how trains run to Andover, but my present thought is to come to Andover on Tuesday, March 10th., and I should be much obliged if you would write me in advance of that date suggestion another day if that should prove inconvenient, for an interview with you, I think we must do something to enable Mr. Wong to carry out his father’s desires. It seems a sacred duty and I want a conference with you as to the best way of approaching a very delicate subject.
I am certainly not devising a plan to weaken the domestic
ties in this family. I think we have much to learn from the Chinese respecting domestic fidelity, but I do believe that Mr. Wong, the little wife and the baby would all be happier as well as actually better off, by some other arrangement than by that which I understand now exists.
Of course I write you in perfect confidence. Thanking
you for the frank kindness of your own letter, and anticipating with pleasure an interview, I am,
Very cordially yours
May Wright Sewall
P.S. May I venture to say that my interest in coming to Andover is augmented by the fact that my father was a student there in the early part of the nineteenth century.
M.W.S.
Creator
May Wright Sewall
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
February 19, 1908
Rights
All Rights Reserved By Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence