Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 1, 1927

Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 1, 1927

Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira College, December 1, 1927

My dear Mary:

Thanks for your letter of November 27. I am enclosing check for $300.00 to enable you to replenish your bank account.

If I were you, I should go frankly to your Dean and tell her in confidence that you do not believe you are benefited by rooming with your present chum. Put it, perhaps, on the ground that those of different nationalities find it difficult to be congenial and to make proper adjustments. I do not think you need to say anything that would involve your roommate unpleasantly, but I do think you ought to make the change if you feel that her ideals are wholly different from yours and her influence not helpful. I am perfectly sure that your father would not wish you for a minute to stay with a roommate who did not meet his ideals of what a girl ought to be.

No, I have not heard further from your father in connection with the Nurses School proposition. The moment I do, however, you will hear from me in turn, and promptly. Nor have I heard from Arthur recently, though he promised to write me frequently after his return. I have not heard that Henry Yuan has been expelled from Hamilton. I hope it isn't true. Within a few weeks I am due at Hamilton College for a preaching engagement, and I can then find out the truth.

What are the plans for the Christmas holidays? I do not quite understand from your letter. Do you mean that you are going to stay in Elmira, and, if so, just where?

With every best wish, believe me,

Always sincerely yours.

ABS/G

Enc.

Alfred E. Stearns

Phillips Academy

December 1, 1927

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