Letter from Charles Sun, London, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 20, 1930
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Title
Letter from Charles Sun, London, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 20, 1930
Subject
Letter from Charles Sun, London, to Alfred E. Stearns, October 20, 1930
Transcription
Dear Dr. Stearns,
I am so sorry for not writing. I hope that you don't think that I have forgotten you.
My work in the Legation is getting along as usual. I am beginning to be a little accustomed to London, which no longer seems so intolerable as before.
I think that I have already told you about the trip I made to Paris in September during the week of vacation which our Minister was good enough to grant me. Paris is a very interesting city but I did not stay long, for there was not a soul in the city whom I knew. Mr. Spencer wrote me that he was spending his summer in France with Mrs. Spencer and asked me to call him up if I ever chanced to be there then I answered his letter a bit late and so missed seeing him.
I have not heard from either Mary or Tom for a long time. A letter from one of my Chinese friends in America told me that Tom is studying in Columbia instead of Yale. The latest news from China which I have recently received may be of interest to you. It concerns some of the old Andover boys who were in the group that came to America between 1920 and 1923. First, my brother Arthur got a boy last August. He is working in the Special Shanghai Municipality Water Works. The pay is not only small but sometimes several months in arrears. He is naturally very much discouraged. Hin Chan, who is the smallest fellow in our group, is now working in a Chinese bank in Hong Kong. He married a Chinese Honolulu girl. Bill and Henry Yuan are both working in Tientsin, but I don’t know where. Tommy, their younger brother, was sent home last year about September; I am afraid he is not doing anything. Frank Lin, according to my latest informant, is no longer in Manchuria with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire Shipping Co. but is now working in Tientsin. I have absolutely no news about Quincy, who, the last I heard from him, was teaching in the Chekiang University, but I know he is no longer there now nor do I know where he is. Of course, I don’t know where Charlie Tsai is and what he is doing. May be you can tell me something about him.
I am doing a lot of skating this winter, having joined a very good Ice Club here near Grosvenor House. It keeps my body fit and my mind from getting bored at things in general.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
With best wishes,
I am so sorry for not writing. I hope that you don't think that I have forgotten you.
My work in the Legation is getting along as usual. I am beginning to be a little accustomed to London, which no longer seems so intolerable as before.
I think that I have already told you about the trip I made to Paris in September during the week of vacation which our Minister was good enough to grant me. Paris is a very interesting city but I did not stay long, for there was not a soul in the city whom I knew. Mr. Spencer wrote me that he was spending his summer in France with Mrs. Spencer and asked me to call him up if I ever chanced to be there then I answered his letter a bit late and so missed seeing him.
I have not heard from either Mary or Tom for a long time. A letter from one of my Chinese friends in America told me that Tom is studying in Columbia instead of Yale. The latest news from China which I have recently received may be of interest to you. It concerns some of the old Andover boys who were in the group that came to America between 1920 and 1923. First, my brother Arthur got a boy last August. He is working in the Special Shanghai Municipality Water Works. The pay is not only small but sometimes several months in arrears. He is naturally very much discouraged. Hin Chan, who is the smallest fellow in our group, is now working in a Chinese bank in Hong Kong. He married a Chinese Honolulu girl. Bill and Henry Yuan are both working in Tientsin, but I don’t know where. Tommy, their younger brother, was sent home last year about September; I am afraid he is not doing anything. Frank Lin, according to my latest informant, is no longer in Manchuria with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire Shipping Co. but is now working in Tientsin. I have absolutely no news about Quincy, who, the last I heard from him, was teaching in the Chekiang University, but I know he is no longer there now nor do I know where he is. Of course, I don’t know where Charlie Tsai is and what he is doing. May be you can tell me something about him.
I am doing a lot of skating this winter, having joined a very good Ice Club here near Grosvenor House. It keeps my body fit and my mind from getting bored at things in general.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
With best wishes,
Creator
Charles Sun
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
October 20, 1930
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence