Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin September 9, 1922
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Title
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin September 9, 1922
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to M.T. Liang, Tientsin September 9, 1922
Transcription
My dear Liang:
Your nice letter of April 10 should have been answered long before this. The missive reached me, however, just past the close of the school year when the pressure of work was mounting and when personal mail was of necessity sidetracked.
It may interest you to know that within the past two or three weeks I have received a letter from Mr. Kung, Senior, enclosing check to cover the outstanding bills on his son's account. The older brother also visited me this fall. Mr. Kung writes that his delay in sending the check was due to his failure to receive any statement from me as to how the account stood. This statement I purposely refrained from sending until I had received some word, however brief, acknowledging the receipt of my letters bearing news of the tragedy which had befallen us. I could not understand the silence, as you know, and I naturally hesitated to send the financial account until I had received some assurance that the earlier correspondence had not miscarried. It had been a relief to me and to Miss Clemons, the extent of which I cannot begin to express. to secure even this brief message from the Kung family, the first direct work that has reached us since the tragedy over a year ago.
Mr. Sun has written me enthusiastically about your reports of the children and their condition. I wish you could have been with us this summer. The boys had a wonderful season at camp and came home in the pink of physical condition and in the highest spirits. All five of them were with us.
I am immensely interested to learn that your daughter and son are coming to the states this fall. Even though they are located in Springfield, I hope they will always consider Andover and my house a sort of second home and will visit us often and freely. It will be a pleasure and privilege to welcome and to aid them in any way I can.
With renewed assurances of my personal esteem and with every best wish for the days ahead, believe me
Very sincerely yours,
Your nice letter of April 10 should have been answered long before this. The missive reached me, however, just past the close of the school year when the pressure of work was mounting and when personal mail was of necessity sidetracked.
It may interest you to know that within the past two or three weeks I have received a letter from Mr. Kung, Senior, enclosing check to cover the outstanding bills on his son's account. The older brother also visited me this fall. Mr. Kung writes that his delay in sending the check was due to his failure to receive any statement from me as to how the account stood. This statement I purposely refrained from sending until I had received some word, however brief, acknowledging the receipt of my letters bearing news of the tragedy which had befallen us. I could not understand the silence, as you know, and I naturally hesitated to send the financial account until I had received some assurance that the earlier correspondence had not miscarried. It had been a relief to me and to Miss Clemons, the extent of which I cannot begin to express. to secure even this brief message from the Kung family, the first direct work that has reached us since the tragedy over a year ago.
Mr. Sun has written me enthusiastically about your reports of the children and their condition. I wish you could have been with us this summer. The boys had a wonderful season at camp and came home in the pink of physical condition and in the highest spirits. All five of them were with us.
I am immensely interested to learn that your daughter and son are coming to the states this fall. Even though they are located in Springfield, I hope they will always consider Andover and my house a sort of second home and will visit us often and freely. It will be a pleasure and privilege to welcome and to aid them in any way I can.
With renewed assurances of my personal esteem and with every best wish for the days ahead, believe me
Very sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
September 9, 1922
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence