32 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b48c209c6cbd50618d17f6937a3039b5.jpg 0d1499c2e817773e1b720a583355238d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9e5e1337c8fbfe73fda6b23f84b629bf.jpg 9501c30a0a0b05075d7113cb28213ca1 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/42a3113ab6c925d7ebbf3c556abe6a36.jpg 2e861bc9b0a04c0b57dce2cf0685563d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings September-December 1926, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, St Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur G. Robinson, St Louis, Missouri, September 20, 1926 Description An account of the resource Dear Mr. Robinson: Your letter of September 17 reached me Saturday afternoon and that of September 18 reached me this morning. In the meantime I have been wiring to Mary's friends and to the indefinite Trenton address, seeking information as to Mary's whereabouts and plans. I can't understand her action. She had my definite permission to visit her friend in Springfield and with the understanding that she was going direct from Springfield to Elmira. Naturally the discovery that she was in Trenton upset me badly, though I am assuming that she found it easier to reach Elmira by way of New York and chose that route, stopping over for the week-end with the friend in question. She had visited once before the school friends in Dover, Delaware, not far from Wilmington, but the Trenton friend is a new one, though doubtless O.K. Mary's Springfield friend wired yesterday, giving the exact address, and I have sent two messages to Mary since that address arrived, asking her to wire you the details of her plans, with the date and hour of arrival in Buffalo. I gave the New York address and hoped the message might reach you before you left or would be forwarded to you en route. On receipt of your second letter this morning, l with your sister's address, I wired Mary at once, again using the Trenton address, asking her to telegraph your sister the hour of her expected arrival in Buffalo, Syracuse, or Binghamton. I had to make this message a bit indefinite, as I did not know which route would be likely to prove the natural one from Trenton. The earlier assumption was that Mary was to go direct from Springfield, though Buffalo would seemingly be the objective. My fear is that this message may have arrived too late and that Mary may now be in Elmira. Naturally this action of Mary and seeming disregard of my interest and authority have distressed me greatly. It is an attitude that was apparently strongly encouraged when Mary was at Abbot Academy last year, furnishing one of the reasons why I was glad to sever that connection when I did, though I would have been willing to have put up with even this disturbing factor if it had not been necessary to make the change for scholastic reasons. Under the circumstance I am forwarding your letter to Mary, as I think you have not put the matter a bit too strongly. A wire received from Mary last Saturday reads: "Impossible to keep Mr. Robinson's plan if you wish me to be loyal to you. Letter explains." No letter of explanation has come, and what in the world Mary means by loyalty to me in the matter is beyond my comprehension. I answered that message more vigorously than ever and told her that I must insist on the full acceptance of your plan, which had her father's approval as well as my own. If I could possibly leave my duties here at this time, I should jump on the train for Elmira myself and try to straighten out the tangle. As it is I can only hope that if your sister misses Mary en route to college, she will be generous enough to make an early trip there and use her good influences to put into operation the plan on which we had agreed. As to your expenses, by all means send me a statement. I am sure that it is only right and certainly in accordance with Mr. Sun's own wishes that you should be reimbursed for all the extra cash, to say nothing of time, you have invested in this problem. I don't believe that even Mr. Sun realizes the anxious thought and time that some of us give to these interesting visitors from the Orient, but I know that it has always been his wish that every extra expense which their presence has caused should be promptly met in this way. I, too, had assumed that Mary quite understood that she was to consult me and follow my wishes before making her definite plans for a room at Elmira. Before talking with you, I had assumed, of course that she would go through rhe usual process and take a dormitory room, for it seemed to me that, in view of her five years experience in this country she would be competent to do this and without detriment to her work and standing. Frankly, my summer was about the most upset one I have ever gone through, and in view of the necessity of getting my daughter and Miss Clemons off for Europe, coupled with the critical illness of my wife, whose death for a number of weeks was regarded as only a matter of days, I am afraid that my mind did not center to the extent it should have done on Mary's particular problem. Further, I am sure that we can yet straighten matters out, and I have become sufficiently accustomed to Mary's protests against plans that did not fit in completely with her own wishes not to be unduly disturbed by that factor. I shall continue to keep you posted as to Mary's movements and progress, at least so far as Mary herself is willing to post me. Very sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 20, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3a17cee426ddfc43015e4326aa1a1706.jpg 610e362de74a57b8890f3b6f7eda4b36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I am sending on your allowance a day or two ahead of time, as requested. Unfortunately I am leaving Andover to-morrow, Saturday, for the University of Michigan and Detroit and shall not be back again until the middle of next week, I hope you can arrange to come out after my return. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 29, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/817191af20d7e2a8e61f11cf7d555493.jpg fff63f97a5160679afb005ae215ffce0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 9, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, April 9, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: On my return to Andover I find your letter of April 1st enclosing receipt for the $20.00 which I recently sent you. Mary has been in Washington with the Chinese Minister for her vacation and stopped off in New York for a night last week on her way back to Elmira. I was in New York at the time but did not know just what her plans were then and so did not see her. She stayed there with a friend and with Mr. Sze’s approval. Only a day or two ago I received a letter from your father dated March 1st. In it he speaks of hearing from Quincey’s father that Quincey is to return to China the latter part of June and asks me to provide him with the necessary funds. In the following paragraph he says: "Should Arthur decide to return home I shall ask you to do the same by him in regard to all matters of travel and such necessary expenses and also the $100.00 for pocket money. Should he wish in addition to have $300.00 or $400.00 for the purchase of instruments or other things which it would be difficult for him to procure out here you may advance this additional amount. In view of the above, I am sure that you are likely to hear more definitely from your father soon, if indeed you have not already heard. From the present chaos which seems to prevail in China I should judge that your father might hesitate to urge you to go back at this time, though I can readily understand your own personal desire to take your proper part in the activities which are likely to prove of such tremendous significance to China in years to come. If you do hear anything farther or more definite, please let me know. It might also be well for you to get in touch with Quincey and find out just what his plans are. Very sincerely yours Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 9, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7dfdb815777fd61a0e71bc72bf0d5b89.jpg d7a515b69e5382fdad4812a4ded898fc https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/02a7635fdfd790234cd6097bb5cab771.jpg 939411bae8e15371cc9a18ddd5cb4c18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 19, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have read with deep interest your last letter. It is one of the best you have ever written me, for it indicates careful thought and deliberation on your part. Further, in spite of quite a few grammatical errors, you have expressed your thought well. I am immensely interested in your problem but hardly know what to advise. Of course I can’t blame you for wishing to go home at the end of this year: nor can I blame Mary, for, as I think you and I both realize, it is really much harder for a girl to endure this long separation from home than it is for us of the other sex. Naturally I can understand your father’s desire that Mary should finish her college course before going home. On the other hand, I am inclined to think that a break and visit in the old home, even if it were for only the summer months, would freshen Mary up a lot and tend to offset her present discouragement. I realize only too well that she can't do justice to her studies if she is going to continue in her present frame of mind. Again, in your own case I don't, of course, know what to advise, for this is clearly your father's responsibility, and I have no doubt he has given the matter long and careful thought. I sometimes wonder whether he is not more concerned than he is willing to admit to you over the chaotic conditions now prevailing in China and the possibility of further and more extended troubles in the near future. Under such circumstances it would be only natural if he preferred to have you postpone the home-coming until things had settled down a bit, for, if conditions are anything approaching what the reports indicate them to be, an engineer, or any other professional man for that matter, would certainly find it more than difficult to make a good start. I don't feel that I can properly urge your father to take any action which does not commend itself to him as wise, but if he gives me the opportunity to do so, I shall be ready and glad to stress your side of the matter and explain why I can't help feeling a good bit of sympathy with your position. No, I have not heard from your father yet. Indeed I have received no word from him for many months. I can only hope that he will send me a word in the not distant future to indicate a little more clearly what he has in mind, so that I will have some ground on which to discuss the matter further with him. What you say about Tom interests and pleases me immensely, for I had come to have something of the same feeling about him myself, though I really saw very little of him when he was here. His letters, however, and the way he has been handling his money would seem to indicate that he had been developing better balance and judgment than were his in times past. I have not yet received his scholarship report for the first semester but am hoping for the best. Tom assures me that the report is going to be an excellent one, but I can’t trust too much to his hopes, for, as you know, he has always been an optimist in his predictions, though the predictions were rarely fulfilled in the actual reports from the office. Don’t hesitate to run out here some evening if you care to discuss matters further and more intimately. I am eager to do everything I can to help but naturally feel my limitations. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 19, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2a459514531f20d035cff51043e1150d.jpg 4a33ef41d0d327b26cf1dcaa83fcd22a https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2411e68ad9468e0f0b455c58819f0306.jpg e30c43bd5ac1827b183057d0b40bf13a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 8, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 8, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thank you for your letter received this morning. You will note that I am using the new address which you have just sent me. I am interested in your hint that Tom seems to you to have changed a lot lately. Please tell me frankly in what way he has changed and whether you think it is for the better or for the worse. I never feel altogether easy about Tom, as you know, and if he needs checking up, I am sure that my good friend Pres. Moody of Middlebury will find a way to do it. No, I have not heard from your father for many months, and I can't help feeling a bit anxious, owing to the newspaper reports of the critical conditions that are developing in China. Evidently Peking and Shanghai have not suffered seriously as yet, but it looks to me now as if this developing antagonism towards foreigners in general would not go down until a real crisis has occurred. Of course these angry mobs are ill advised, and yet I am not sure that we can blame them altogether, for I can never get over the shock I received myself when I was in China, as I noted the arrogance and injustice so characteristic of the attitude of many of the foreigners whom I met. If only China could settle down, unite on a common policy and a strong leader, all of the thorns which have been pricking her flesh for years, including foreign concessions, tariff, extraterritoriality, and the rest, would speedily and permanently be done away with just as was the case in Japan when Japan went at the thing in the right way. You fellows, when you return to China will have a wonderful chance to help straighten out a bad tangle and put your country in a position that ought properly to be hers. I don’t think your idea of a night school course or two is crazy at all; indeed it seems to me pretty sound, especially as the bulk of your present work, as I understand it, is to be out of doors and more or less physical. That means that you ought to be able to take on a little real study even in the evening without harm and with some evident advantages. Don’t overdo it, though. With best wishes for the new year, believe me Always sincerely yours. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 8, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c905ea0d18779657b3ecd6ca851bd1e5.jpg 86964f57f41140353814efe76fe1562d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, June 7, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, June 7, 1927 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 7, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: The enclosed bill came to me some time ago without any comments as to who the purchaser might be. I wrote for information, as you will note, and learned this this charge covered a wardrobe trunk ordered by you which Winship is still holding awaiting a notification as to where it is to be sent. If the bill is correct, please OK it and return it to me for payment. Faithfully yours, Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6114ce06e2fec4ef62545fa6959891ae.jpg d1a1719874952da68252ee301b113f37 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a679da34d2fafbdb178fe0142268cc1c.jpg 259a0e9067518832bc4266c96d49af71 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, February 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, February 11, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have your letter of February 8 and the accompanying telegram from Mary. The telegram I am returning herewith, but I can’t quite understand what it meant. The reference to her room is wholly unintelligible to me. Just what is it all about? I had a letter from your father, written December 23, and I quote from my reply to that letter: "Arthur had already written me of your expressed wish that he should remain in this country for another year to continue practical work. He is much distressed over your decision and has begged me to do what I can to encourage you to feel that he should be permitted to return to China at the end of this current year. Of course I am not in a position to assume any authority in a matter of this kind; so that I am only expressing the wish that Arthur has voiced to me, a wish which I have no doubt he has already conveyed to you as well. At just this moment it happens that Mary has shown pretty vigorous symptoms of home sickness and has voiced to me and others her earnest desire to be permitted to return to China this coming summer. She wrote me that her work was getting out of her reach and that she feared failure. Believing that her mental condition had something to do with it, I wrote to Dr. Sze in Washington asking if he would kindly investigate through some of his friends in Elmira the exact situation and advise me accordingly. Dr. Sze was good enough to do this and sent me for examination a letter received from one of the officers of the institution from whom he had sought information. From the letter in question it would seem that Mary's work is not beyond her reach, that she is making a good, though not brilliant, record in her studies, and that her present depression is due, in part at least, to a somewhat run-down physical condition attended by a cold. Miss French, who wrote to Dr. Sze, assured him that Mary was having every possible attention and care and that there was good reason to believe that her cold would soon be mastered and her physical condition generally improved. With such a change we are all hoping for a better attitude on her part. Isn’t it just possible that the upset conditions in China have influenced your father’s attitude? Isn’t it also possible that you may be able to secure more on the subject from Minister Sze in Washington? I imagine that the Minister is in fairly close touch with the situation in China end can perhaps interpret better than I can your father’s attitude. I like the idea of a night course at Boston University, provided you do not allow this to become too heavy a strain on your time and strength. That won’t pay. I am enclosing check for $39.00. payable to the Boston University Treasurer, as requested. I also enclose check for $20.00, which I understand is what you require for the balance of the month to supplement your income on the job. Don’t hesitate to let me know if you get any further light on Mary’s situation. Evidently she is magnifying her own difficulties for the letter which the Dean wrote Minister Sze indicates that she is doing her work in a satisfactory way and has no occasion to be unduly anxious about the results. Apparently homesickness is at the bottom of it all. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 11, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6f0855ed86e8f9948019283faba43106.jpg ba397885238b148583fe10acdc3c0baf https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/478f45e1a61ff9d544a2724228bc1418.jpg 608839d66d1f1b331a35034004f64112 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 11, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 11, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: Thank you for your letter and for the enclosures. I will see that the bills are promptly settled. That of your dentist is heavy, of course, but dental operations are always very expensive things, as I know from my personal experience. In view of general charges made for this kind of work, I don’t think that Dr. Gibbons’s bill can be considered excessive. Now about Mary. I don’t know quite what to say. She wrote me only a few days ago a letter very similar to the one she has just written you, and I answered it promptly telling her that I felt sure she was suffering, when she wrote, from her cold and consequent run-down condition and that she would see things in a brighter light when her health improved. I told her further that I had received no information from the college itself that would indicate that her work was badly off, as she protested. My impression is that she is homesick chiefly and that her other complaints are naturally exaggerated by this fact. Very possibly it may be worth while to take the matter up with Minister Sze, who, through his friends at Elmira, may be able to locate the trouble better than you and I can. I am going to write him along this line, anyway. Your reference to Mary’s lack of frankness with you is interesting, because that is just what I have found myself in my dealings with her and it has troubled me not a little. When I happened to mention this once to one of the Abbot Academy teachers, I was given to understand that I was altogether wrong and that Mary was a model of frankness with all. Indeed I learned later that the Abbot authorities had criticized both Miss Clemons and me very severely and unjustly for intimating that this lack of frankness on Mary’s part as a weakness which had to be reckoned with at times and which it was our duty to help her overcame. Of course the attitude of the Abbot teachers only made matters worse, and that is one of the reasons that I have been a bit impatient with them ever since. Certainly the years of intimate contact in my home that I had with Mary gave me a better chance to judge her qualities, good and bad, than did the comparatively brief and irregular contacts which she had with her Abbot teachers. I had felt, though, that Mary had been outgrowing this weakness, and I am sorry to have you intimate in your letter that you evidently did not think so yourself. I am returning Mary’s letter, as I assume you wished me to do. Please let me know when you hear anything further from her. Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 11, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/75cebc2b9fd9fd8b8912fa07b07c6013.jpg d068cae15ecbf3bc4a1f3df59b8ea168 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/40fb127cc2b58ab6d02f0fd8cf72bb94.jpg 277e88fa533f3a933b91aee6e1217f97 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 28, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, January 28, 1927 Relation A related resource My dear Arthur: On my return from a trip to the West I find your letter of January 24 with the enclosed letter from your friend. I learned also that in my absence my secretary, Miss Jones, sent you from the Treasurer’s Office a check for $25.00. Of course this obligation will be promptly met by me, though I must admit that I do not like at all the idea involved in this transaction. In the first place, your friend asks for $10.00 and you ask me for $25.00. I don’t quite understand the difference. Won’t you please explain? In the second place, I am perfectly sure that your father would not approve of your handing over his money to your friends in this way without at least the full endorsement of some responsible person like the Chinese Minister in Washington. In a case of this kind your friend should have applied to the Minister, for, if his funds from China had been cut off, the Minister is the man who will understand the situation and know how to act. Very possibly some individuals have found it difficult of late to send money from China to this country, but I myself have received within the last two or three weeks remittances not only from your father but from Admiral Tu and Mr. Tsai, which indicates that the channels of communication have not been fully interrupted yet. Frankly, I think your friend has preyed upon your sympathy and taken advantage of his society connection to an extent which I deem wholly unfair. Neither you nor your friend is going to "starve" just because of the upset conditions in China at this moment. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 28, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e610c7190032d7d66634af5f30106904.jpg 666121d8c249a249e041089fcd861abf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings January-June 1927, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, March 29, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Arthur Sun, Boston, March 29, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Arthur: I have your letter of March 27 and am enclosing check for $20.00, representing your April allowance, as requested. I am sorrier than I can tell you to have missed your visit last Saturday. It is too bad you did not telephone out in advance to make sure that I would be here. As a matter of fact I was here until early in the afternoon when I drove to Merrimac to bring back to Andover Helen Tsai whose vacation was just beginning and whose brother had already arrived and in fact went with me on the trip. They are leaving today to visit friends in South Weymouth and Worcester, and it would have meant a lot to them, and I think to you as well, if you could have met. They will be back here next week; so perhaps there will still be a chance. I haven’t the remotest idea what Mary means by her telegram and I am returning it herewith. She has said not a word to me on the subject. Yes, she has gone to Washington for the holidays on the invitation of Minister Sze and his wife. I shall hope to send you small contribution for the Chinese Students’ Association work early next month, though with the extra expenses I am carrying this year it cannot be very much. Remember me warmly to Charlie. Do you understand that Tom is staying in Middlebury? Faithfully yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 29, 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Arthur Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns