Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London December 16, 1929
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Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London December 16, 1929
Subject
Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, London December 16, 1929
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Dear Charlie:
Your good letter of December 2 has duly reached me and I am hoping that long before it arrived my earlier letter enclosing a draft for thirty-five hundred dollars has reached you. As I explained in that note, this amount represents within a few dollars the total surplus standing to your account and in my hands, and was forwarded to you at your father's request. From now on I take it that it will not be necessary for you to report your expenditures to me, as your father seems to share my own feelings that you are amply able now to manage your own affairs. I hope, though, that this does not mean that my contacts with you are going to be any less intimate. In that case I shall be the real loser.
Of course you will find things very different there from what you have known them in America. On the other hand, there should be much of interest to you and contacts with new people and the necessity of adopting new ways are broadening influences in themselves. I am sorry, though, that you do not find more congenial companions among your Chinese colleagues there, for it would make it much easier for you to break into the new life if you had some good friends among your own countrymen.
Miss Clemons wrote me some time ago that she had received a letter from you and was hoping very much to look you up when she was next in England. She has been planning to join Marjorie there around Christmas time so that no doubt you will hear from her soon if you have not heard already.
I was out in Amherst last Sunday for my annual engagement at the Agricultural College in the morning and at Amherst College in the late afternoon. The old Andover boys, or at least a good number of them, came up after the service and we had a nice little visit together until the organ recital put it to an end. Mr. Allis's son is here and singing in our choir so that Amherst contacts are pretty good this year. In about an hour I am leaving for New York to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Amherst trustees, so you see altogether Amherst has held quite a place in my thought and schedule for the past few days. But I did miss seeing you up in the old town last week, and I shall continue to do so as I return there from time to time.
Do keep me posted on all your activities. This is the closing week of the fall term and hence an extra busy one, so I won't attempt to lengthen this letter. It carries with it, however, the old time and friendliest good will and every best wish for a Merry Christmas and a truly happy and worth while New Year.
Every sincerely yours,
Your good letter of December 2 has duly reached me and I am hoping that long before it arrived my earlier letter enclosing a draft for thirty-five hundred dollars has reached you. As I explained in that note, this amount represents within a few dollars the total surplus standing to your account and in my hands, and was forwarded to you at your father's request. From now on I take it that it will not be necessary for you to report your expenditures to me, as your father seems to share my own feelings that you are amply able now to manage your own affairs. I hope, though, that this does not mean that my contacts with you are going to be any less intimate. In that case I shall be the real loser.
Of course you will find things very different there from what you have known them in America. On the other hand, there should be much of interest to you and contacts with new people and the necessity of adopting new ways are broadening influences in themselves. I am sorry, though, that you do not find more congenial companions among your Chinese colleagues there, for it would make it much easier for you to break into the new life if you had some good friends among your own countrymen.
Miss Clemons wrote me some time ago that she had received a letter from you and was hoping very much to look you up when she was next in England. She has been planning to join Marjorie there around Christmas time so that no doubt you will hear from her soon if you have not heard already.
I was out in Amherst last Sunday for my annual engagement at the Agricultural College in the morning and at Amherst College in the late afternoon. The old Andover boys, or at least a good number of them, came up after the service and we had a nice little visit together until the organ recital put it to an end. Mr. Allis's son is here and singing in our choir so that Amherst contacts are pretty good this year. In about an hour I am leaving for New York to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Amherst trustees, so you see altogether Amherst has held quite a place in my thought and schedule for the past few days. But I did miss seeing you up in the old town last week, and I shall continue to do so as I return there from time to time.
Do keep me posted on all your activities. This is the closing week of the fall term and hence an extra busy one, so I won't attempt to lengthen this letter. It carries with it, however, the old time and friendliest good will and every best wish for a Merry Christmas and a truly happy and worth while New Year.
Every sincerely yours,
Creator
Alfred E. Stearns
Publisher
Phillips Academy
Date
December 16, 1929
Rights
All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy
Language
English
Type
Correspondence