Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. May 18, 1926

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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. May 18, 1926

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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Legation, Washington, D.C. May 18, 1926

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May 18, 1926
Hon. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze
The Chinese legation
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr.Sze:

In response to your recent communication I wired you at Odessa as follows:
"Thanks for message. Very grateful if you can arrange for Mary Sun’s summer at Elmira in home of some reliable teacher as suggested in our last conversation. Have delayed formal application for admission pending advices from Mary’s present school as to subjects she will be qualified to offer for entrance. Expect to have this within next few days. Summer tutoring probably necessary in any case.”

I hope that this message reached you safely and that you gathered its meaning. As to Mary Sun’s telegram, which you were good enough to send me, the reference to Robinson is in connection with a contemplated visit of Mr. Arthur Robinson, Y. M. C. A. Secretary at Tientsin and a very close friend of Mr. Sun, who has been here once before to discuss the problems of these children with me and who Mr. Sun writes is coming again this spring to talk over with me further the plans for the future. During the uncertainty connected with the further work of Mary Sun and her brother Tom I have written both Mr.Sun and Mr. Robinson and have asked them to discuss together the contents of these letters, since I thought that I might be able to make myself a little clearer to Mr. Robinson than I could to Mr. Sun and that he would be able in consequence to enlighten the latter. I imagine that Mr. Robinson may appear at almost any time now, though I have not heard from him for some weeks.

A word about the Elmira situation. I hope to have full information within the next few days from Mary’s present teachers so as to be able to give the Elmira authorities as complete information as possible as to Mary's fitness to enter anti carry the work there. In the meantime I hope that you will be able to secure from your friends in Elmira an endorsement of some reliable member of the faculty who will be willing to take Mary into her home this summer and give her such instruction as she may need to round out her preparation. This seems to me to be distinctly the best plan I can think of for Mary's summer and, if I remember rightly. It is one which you originally suggested. My main concern is that the family selected should be of the right kind and supply Mary a home with refinement and culture and reasonable oversight.

I dislike exceedingly to burden you with a matter of this kind, and I can never tell you how deeply I appreciate the help you have given me thus far.

With kindest personal regards, believe me
Very sincerely yours.

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Alfred E. Stearns

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Phillips Academy

Date

May 18, 1926

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All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy

Language

English

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Correspondence

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