Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 21, 1930
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Title
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 21, 1930
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, New Haven, Conn., March 21, 1930
Transcription
Dear Mary:
I have just returned to Andover and find your good letter of March 12. Needless to say all you write is of the keenest interest to me, and I can’t help smiling at your enthusiasm over your work, especially when that work takes the form of caring for the wants of negro babies. After all, though, it takes just those straight human contacts to bring home to our stupid hearts the clear truth that the color of the skin counts very little, if anything in the Almighty's plans for the human race. Anyway, it is tremendously gratifying to me to feel that you have found the one job for which you seem so eminently fitted, and in which in consequence you are bound to get the deepest joys out of your life work. So continued success to you!
Yes, I had several lovely visits with Charlies in London. He seemed dreadfully doleful and homesick over there, but cheered up greatly when we got together. Indeed, he welcome me when I first appeared at the Legation as if I had been his long lost brother. It was great to see him and good to discover in the end that he seemed to be getting adjusted to his new surrounding and finding them less and less distasteful as time went on.
I can only send you a brief note now, for my desk is piled high with letters which have been waiting for my return, and we are closing the winter term today besides. Every best wish to you, none the less, and do keep me posted, for I enjoy everything I hear of your work and progress.
Ever sincerely yours,
I have just returned to Andover and find your good letter of March 12. Needless to say all you write is of the keenest interest to me, and I can’t help smiling at your enthusiasm over your work, especially when that work takes the form of caring for the wants of negro babies. After all, though, it takes just those straight human contacts to bring home to our stupid hearts the clear truth that the color of the skin counts very little, if anything in the Almighty's plans for the human race. Anyway, it is tremendously gratifying to me to feel that you have found the one job for which you seem so eminently fitted, and in which in consequence you are bound to get the deepest joys out of your life work. So continued success to you!
Yes, I had several lovely visits with Charlies in London. He seemed dreadfully doleful and homesick over there, but cheered up greatly when we got together. Indeed, he welcome me when I first appeared at the Legation as if I had been his long lost brother. It was great to see him and good to discover in the end that he seemed to be getting adjusted to his new surrounding and finding them less and less distasteful as time went on.
I can only send you a brief note now, for my desk is piled high with letters which have been waiting for my return, and we are closing the winter term today besides. Every best wish to you, none the less, and do keep me posted, for I enjoy everything I hear of your work and progress.
Ever sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
March 21, 1930
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence