35 10 3636 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6be846ef109a87832c45ad5a660449d2.jpg db8dd6ecdabcc5fcb4a6022b504321ea 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 Mary Sun, Elmira, New York,April 25, 1927 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Mary Sun, Elmira, New York,April 25, 1927 Relation A related resource Dear Mary: I have your note of April 22 and am enclosing a check, as requested, to replenish your bank account. I am also returning the account book which I have looked over with interest. I am immensely curious to know what the latest reports are you get from your parents in China and how they regard the prospects for the future. Arthur expects to come out soon and I hope to have a chance to learn something from him. Trusting that the college year will round out for you in a most satisfactory way and that your work, health, and spirits will continue to improve steadily, believe me always 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 25, 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 Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Mary Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c3dbf2ae113cbb8beb939587cf152d4a.jpg d59a11cb370e4496c3b3374f0f9cbcab 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, November 13, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, November 13, 1929 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 November 13, 1929 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 Helen: Thank you for your letter of November 10. I will continue to keep the fifty dollars you earned last year in the bank until you desire to use it. When you do, just let me know, for it is of course yours, and its final disposition is in your hands and not mine. Thanks, too, for the interesting picture of the school building. You must have wonderfully beautiful grounds and buildings from all I hear, and I hope that perhaps I may be able to see them for myself before the current school year is over. With best wishes, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/91714ab106f31581fe2ceab174790452.jpg cb64c7715dbfd6bafe2f612dbaecce4a 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, November 7, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, November 7, 1929 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 November 7, 1929 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 Helen: When you were last here you spoke to me about your possible desire to take over for your own uses the fifty dollars which I have been holding for you at your father’s request. Is it still your wish to have me send you this money or shall I continue to keep it in the bank? Faithfully yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/13ec188a3a926bc4146cdc44117a70ba.jpg 033425e270e0738f4cca74aa4700ff9e 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, January 9, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, January 9, 1929 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 9, 1929 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 Helen: Thank you for your letter received this morning. I am sorrier than I can tell you that I could not seem to find a way to get together with you and Alfred during the recent holidays. Better luck next time. I will see that your bags are sent to Mrs. Nye as requested, for I agree with you and it will be better to have your things all in one place, further, I have asked Mrs. Nye, as she has doubtless told you, to assume a semi-guardianship, as it were, over you while you are in this country. A girl needs a woman's oversight and advice and that, of course, I can’t supply. I shall still feel myself responsible, however, for your welfare, and you must feel perfectly free to turn to me for any counsel or advice you feel that I am able to supply. I am sure that Mrs. Nye will prove a real and helpful friend to you, and I am sure that you are fortunate in the fact that she is willing to assume this responsibility. I shall respect your wishes in regard to the money, but please bear in mind that it is your father's expressed desire that you should have this money for your own personal use, and you must feel at liberty, therefore, to ask me for it or for any part of it whenever you desire. With all good wishes for the winter term, believe me. Always sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/c61c69306c87c35a401ccf04c3787265.jpg 9f381ff8c4fbeb474034bfbfad9f6af9 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5152a8d23d2bb662fc4c00c3e610a899.jpg 14f31bff4815e9edb27ad38f1a7bdcf7 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria, January 3, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria, January 3, 1929 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 3, 1929 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 My dear Mr. Tsai: Your very interesting letter of November 28 reached me just at the Christmas season and was followed a day or two later by the tea which you so thoughtful as to send me as a Christmas gift. Please accept my very hearty thanks for the gift, which will be thoroughly enjoyed, I assure you, by members of my family as well as myself, for we are all tea drinkers, though I hope not to excessively so. Yes, I am sure that Helen is enjoying her present school, and I am also sure that the school itself and the influences there are of the very best. I can't think of any place where I would prefer to have had my own daughter during her school years, and my keen and lasting regret is that I did not know more about this particular school at the time my daughter would naturally have been a candidate for admission. While I am not an Epsicopalean [sic], I am pretty broad in my view, and if the fundamentals that count in character building receive the chiefest emphasis, I don't very much care from what source or from what denomination they come. Helen's vacations have been my greatest problem, as I think I have already intimated to you, and I have taken a step recently of which I hope you will approve and which I cannot help feeling is really wise and distinctly better for Helen than the old arrangement. Helen needs a woman's advice and counsel, something which I cannot, of course, supply. Mrs. Nye has been wonderfully friendly to both of the children, and I have consequently asked her if she would accept the position of sub-guardian, as it were, for Helen, so that Helen could receive from her that intimate relationship which would enable her to ask questions and secure advice from one understanding her needs and as a high-minded woman, capable of meeting them. I am sending Mrs. Nye, therefore, a lump sum of money on Helen's account, for which she will render me a definite accounting, and which will be used, of course, only in Helen's behalf. Mrs. Nye is also ready and glad to provide a home for the children during their vacation periods and under conditions far better than I could possibly arrange for them even at our quiet little Inn here in Andover. I shall keep in touch with Mrs. Nye, of course, and she will consult me freely, so that whatever is done will, I feel sure, meet with my approval and no doubt with yours as well. Alfred is finding his work at Phillips pretty difficult, but he has one on the whole a bit better than I feared at the outset would be the case. By another year, I think he ought to be able to develop suffcient momentum to carry him along with increasing achievement until he finds himself well prepared for the higher work of the college or scientific school. Your reference to Helen’s money-earning ability amuses me. Helen has been keen to earn something to help meet the expenses of her own education and I have been immensely pleased with her attitude and inclined to encourage so high a purpose. I imagine she found the work last summer a bit strenuous, however, but I have no doubt that it was a valuable experience and one which will tend to make her realize the value of money and something of the satisfaction of earning it for oneself. Whether she will ever become a “Hetty Green", remains to be seen, though I am not generally enthusiastic about ladies so renouned [sic] for their material successes alone. I will see that the fifty dollars is turned over from your account to Helen’s personal account if she is willing to allow me to do this, and in the meantime will increase Alfred’s allowance to ten dollars per month as you have suggested. I was very much interested to hear of Mr. Kwan’s visit. He was a wonderfully fine and promising fellow when here and I have heard only good things of him since his return to China. He got as far as California last year, but unfortunately was not able to come east, so I missed a chance to see him again. When I was in China in the winter of 1913, his father, Dr. Kwan, came all the way from Tientsin to Peking to call on me, and I recall with the deepest pleasure that friendly visit. I am sending the children small checks as you have requested, representing Christmas gifts from Mrs. Tsai and yourself, and I shall be glad to see that each has some good book as sell, coming as a gift from the same source. Unfortunately, your letter did not reach me until after Christmas, and as both Alfred and Helen are with Mrs. Nye over the holiday season, I have not been able to attend to the matter so promptly as would otherwise have been possible. Wishing you a truly happy and prosperous New Year, and with kind personal regards, believe me Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Ting Kan https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/0dc24f19dacfecb907fe69943109f608.jpg 1abf2a931f5c6e0f76929ba59372aa46 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Helen Tsai, South Weymouth, Mass., January 3, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, South Weymouth, Mass., January 3, 1929 Relation A related resource Dear Helen: The trunk has been sent to you by express, but not so promptly as would have been the case had I known where to find it. I had assumed that it was at my house and wasted two or three days before I discovered that it was here at George Washington Hall. Do you wish the two bags that have been stored in the same place sent you also, or shall I leave them there? I had a fine letter from your father several days ago, and in it he asked me to refund to you for your personal account and use the fifty dollars which you earned this summer and spent, I suppose, for your personal needs. Do you wish me to send you this amount now or shall I keep it in the general fund until you have need of it? Evidently your father is immensely pleased at the thought that you were willing and able to earn something on your own account. Your father also asked me to send you and Alfred a little cash for Christmas needs. Unfortunately, his letter did not reach me until after Christmas Day had passed, but if you wish to have me do so, I shall be glad to send along some cash to help pay bills that you may have perhaps contracted in connection with your Christmas purchases. Let me know, anyway, just how you are fixed, and what I can do to carry out your father's wishes. We have been so busy here with Christmas itself and preparations for the departure of my daughter and Miss Clemons for Europe that I really have not had a chance to arrange to meet you as suggested and as I would immensely like to do. I am afraid that I can't find the time between now and the close of your vacation, but perhaps we can work out a meeting some way if you will wish to see me. I had thought at one time that there might be a chance for you and Alfred to meet me in Boston for lunch, perhaps, and I shall keep that in mind as a possibility anyway. My best wishes to both you and Alfred for the happiest of New Years. 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 3, 1929 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 Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2cc55ea28a16d6c3b057b6bb3fbbd9e1.jpg 4bf49ca4efb2d7f01b8d96ce6aa762a0 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, November 5, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, November 5, 1929 Relation A related resource Dear Helen: Thank you for your good letter received this morning. It has relieved my mind a good deal, for I know how much you must have worried over that long period which brought you no news from home. As soon as I received Sister Antony’s telegram, I called up Alfred and finding that he had had a letter from home within a week or two, asked him to mail you this letter at once so as to relieve your anxiety. Ho promised to do so, and in the meantime I wired Sister Antony what I had found in order that you might get rid of some of your anxiety, so I am doubly glad to hear that you yourself have had a letter direct from home and that your mind is now at peace. Yes, Alfred seems to be doing distinctly better in his work this term, and I am hoping with all my heart that the improvement will last and become even more pronounced as the year goes on. With all good wishes, believe 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 November 5, 1929 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/05a0712ede03cb17a532500efa35116a.jpg 0dd1873f6b24d4c1a136c0a263e84b0c 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria, October 8, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria, October 8, 1929 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Tsai: I am enclosing herewith a statement of the accounts of the two children covering the period since I last reported to you on October 9, 1928. The interest item on the credit side represents interest received from the savings department of the Andover National Bank on part of the sum which you originally sent me and which was deposited in the savings department pending the time when it would necessarily have to be transferred to the checking account. I am still carrying in the names of the two children and myself a further account with the Andover Savings Bank on which interest has been accruing and which will be included in a later statement, as I have not yet been compelled to withdraw this deposit from the savings bank. So far as I can tell, both Alfred and Helen are starting off on a new school year in the best of health and spirits. Helen has been doing excellently in her work from the start, and I am hoping that Alfred will be able to develop a little more intellectual momentum this year. Increasing maturity ought to help him in this respect. With warm personal regards, believe 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 October 8, 1929 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 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ae2d831bb0cc4c48d7434e7640bc0931.jpg 807f1b013ee8571f6dc96afb45a2ebf6 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, September 25, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Helen Tsai, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, New York, September 25, 1929 Relation A related resource Dear Helen: Thanks for the note. I am returning the correspondence list with my signature attached as requested. I don't believe that your school authorities can find any objection to a modest list like yours. Too bad you can't include "Oberlin." Here's wishing you the best year ever! 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 September 25, 1929 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 Helen Tsai https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3a757198a0f63fa269939050f9c81433.jpg 9af8ae125be80af73a4c9b99ee5059ff 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 27 Folder 4 Alfred and Helen Tsai, 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 Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria， September 12, 1929 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Ting-Kan, Dairen, Manchuria， September 12, 1929 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Tsai: Your good letter of July 30 has recently reached me. Only a few days after its receipt Helen and Alfred arrived in town, to invest several days before beginning their work of the new school year. Both seemed to be in the best of health and spirits. Please don’t give yourself any concern about the transmission of more funds at this time. I shall not need any more for a long time yet since your earlier and generous remittance has not begun to be exhausted. The tin of tea to which you refer - at least, I assume it is that one - arrived a few days ago and I hope to be able to sample it shortly. Needless to say, I appreciate more deeply than I can tell you your thoughtfulness in sending me tea of so rare a variety, for I know well enough how highly the Chinese value tea of such fine quality. Again my thanks, hearty and sincere. We shall be on the lookout for the sons of Mr. Pan Fou when they arrive, which I hope will be soon, as school is getting under way this week. Alfred tells me that he expects them here shortly, but thus far I have had no official word of their whereabouts. Anything I can do to aid them while they are in America will be accepted as a privilege. With warm personal regards, and hoping that the disturbances in Manchuria of which we have read so much in the papers of late may be speedily dispelled, believe 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 12, 1929 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 Tsai Ting Kan