Letter from C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 20, 1923
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Letter from C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 20, 1923
Subject
Letter from C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, to Alfred E. Stearns, February 20, 1923
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My dear Dr. Stearns,
I am very glad, to have your letter of the 14th of April and thank you most cordially for all you have done for my children.
It is a great pleasure to hear all the kind reports you send about my boys. No doubt your correspondence regarding Arthur’s Tsing Hua scholarship will result in a satisfactory settlement, and I am sorry you have had so much trouble in this matter.
To hear the news that Charles is asking to be baptized is such as causes me much rejoicing and I am naturally more pleased than you at this decision Charles has made.
The problem about Mary is concerning me very greatly. I had not thought of Mary as being deceitful. I have not mentioned it to you before as I did not want to trouble you, but Mary wrote me sometime ago and told me very frankly of her fault in carrying tales and in disobeying the orders given her. She also told me that she was very sorry and had apologized to Miss Clemons and had tried her best to show by her actions to Miss Clemons how sorry she was. However, I see from your letter that you are so very good, as to watch the situation carefully, and no doubt your wise judgment will find a satisfactory way out of the difficulty. I shall be anxious until I hear from you just what you think should be done. You will fully understand how hard it is at this distance away for me to form a true opinion on Mary, but it seems to me that she is unhappy and that is going to affect her in her studies and in her conduct.
I really must apologise for being so much trouble to you about my daughter Mary and I truly hope there may be some happy solution come to, for it would be a great blow to have her finishing years cut off in America. Still, I will wait your fuller report and your reply to this letter before coming to any decision.
You are quite right in thinking that there was some mistake as to the assignment of the three mandarin coats; the largest and most elaborately embroidered one was intended for Miss Clemons and the two smaller ones for the girls. I am sorry about the mistake evidently made at the Customs House.
I am arranging for a draft for $5,000.00 to be sent you from Tientsin.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
P.S. Since writing the above, letters have come in from my son, and from their reference to Mary, I am more of a mind to think that she would be happier in a boarding school like Northfield, and, if in your opinion this is a wise step for her, I would agree with you. I am sure we are both looking at this from the same point of view for the lasting benefit of Mary and I want to leave this decision entirely in your hands. I hope to soon have good news from you about Mary. Thank you again for all your interest in her and in my boys.
I am very glad, to have your letter of the 14th of April and thank you most cordially for all you have done for my children.
It is a great pleasure to hear all the kind reports you send about my boys. No doubt your correspondence regarding Arthur’s Tsing Hua scholarship will result in a satisfactory settlement, and I am sorry you have had so much trouble in this matter.
To hear the news that Charles is asking to be baptized is such as causes me much rejoicing and I am naturally more pleased than you at this decision Charles has made.
The problem about Mary is concerning me very greatly. I had not thought of Mary as being deceitful. I have not mentioned it to you before as I did not want to trouble you, but Mary wrote me sometime ago and told me very frankly of her fault in carrying tales and in disobeying the orders given her. She also told me that she was very sorry and had apologized to Miss Clemons and had tried her best to show by her actions to Miss Clemons how sorry she was. However, I see from your letter that you are so very good, as to watch the situation carefully, and no doubt your wise judgment will find a satisfactory way out of the difficulty. I shall be anxious until I hear from you just what you think should be done. You will fully understand how hard it is at this distance away for me to form a true opinion on Mary, but it seems to me that she is unhappy and that is going to affect her in her studies and in her conduct.
I really must apologise for being so much trouble to you about my daughter Mary and I truly hope there may be some happy solution come to, for it would be a great blow to have her finishing years cut off in America. Still, I will wait your fuller report and your reply to this letter before coming to any decision.
You are quite right in thinking that there was some mistake as to the assignment of the three mandarin coats; the largest and most elaborately embroidered one was intended for Miss Clemons and the two smaller ones for the girls. I am sorry about the mistake evidently made at the Customs House.
I am arranging for a draft for $5,000.00 to be sent you from Tientsin.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
P.S. Since writing the above, letters have come in from my son, and from their reference to Mary, I am more of a mind to think that she would be happier in a boarding school like Northfield, and, if in your opinion this is a wise step for her, I would agree with you. I am sure we are both looking at this from the same point of view for the lasting benefit of Mary and I want to leave this decision entirely in your hands. I hope to soon have good news from you about Mary. Thank you again for all your interest in her and in my boys.
Creator
C.Y. Sun
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
February 20, 1923
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence