Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931
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Title
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, New Haven., Conn., January 24, 1931
Transcription
Dear Tommy:
I have read carefully and with interest your letter of January 22, just received. Don’t worry - I am not going to give you away, for I have a lot of sympathy with your feelings and I want you to feel that you can always talk with me with the utmost freedom about your problems and interests. If I can’t help you in matters of this kind, it won’t be from any lack of desire on my part, I can assure you.
Very possibly I shall be in New Haven before the term is over, though I have no definite engagement at present to call me down that way. If I not, and can’t got there, I shall be tempted to have you run up here some time so that we can talk things over frankly and fully face to face. Anyway, I grateful to you for telling me how far I should go in stating your case to your father, and I will be very careful not to mention anything relating to your mother, but just re-emphasize in a general way the arguments I have advanced in the past in favor of your return to China, if only for a comparatively short period.
By the way, did Mary ever receive my letter in which I wrote her of her father’s letter to me saying that he wished her to return to China after a visit in England this next summer. Your father asked me to make proper arrangements for the trip, including steamer reservations, etc., and it is imperative that I should act soon if these arrangements are to prove satisfactory. I wrote Mary some time ago, and very fully, about it all, telling her just what her father’s instructions were, but I haven’t had even an acknowledgment of the letter and am naturally worried. Won’t you see her and ask her to write me at once so that I may know just what I am do to?
So cheer up, and good luck to you.
Ever sincerely yours,
I have read carefully and with interest your letter of January 22, just received. Don’t worry - I am not going to give you away, for I have a lot of sympathy with your feelings and I want you to feel that you can always talk with me with the utmost freedom about your problems and interests. If I can’t help you in matters of this kind, it won’t be from any lack of desire on my part, I can assure you.
Very possibly I shall be in New Haven before the term is over, though I have no definite engagement at present to call me down that way. If I not, and can’t got there, I shall be tempted to have you run up here some time so that we can talk things over frankly and fully face to face. Anyway, I grateful to you for telling me how far I should go in stating your case to your father, and I will be very careful not to mention anything relating to your mother, but just re-emphasize in a general way the arguments I have advanced in the past in favor of your return to China, if only for a comparatively short period.
By the way, did Mary ever receive my letter in which I wrote her of her father’s letter to me saying that he wished her to return to China after a visit in England this next summer. Your father asked me to make proper arrangements for the trip, including steamer reservations, etc., and it is imperative that I should act soon if these arrangements are to prove satisfactory. I wrote Mary some time ago, and very fully, about it all, telling her just what her father’s instructions were, but I haven’t had even an acknowledgment of the letter and am naturally worried. Won’t you see her and ask her to write me at once so that I may know just what I am do to?
So cheer up, and good luck to you.
Ever sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
January 24, 1931
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence