2 10 36 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7a01a647e28538bc8c3e5fbb9b955f29.jpg 026ad3df927a37079df94978ee1d078c 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 22, 1922 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 22, 1922 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 22, 1922 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 22 February, 1922. Mr. Tsai Shou-kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China. Dear Mr. Tsai: Let me acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 25th enclosing draft for for $650. to be credited to the account of Kuo-fang, and to be used primarily for meeting the extra expenses incurred by the boy’s recent illness. I will see that the accounts are settled at once. Some of them have already been paid, as the boy has a fair balance on hand at the present time. Please thank the boys for their expressions of good will and accept for them and for yourself my warmest personal regards and best wishes for the days ahead. Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/42b22cb96fc39006479e183a7ef8253e.jpg 1c4f785176c067c74fa6bb62eb8c346c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/39bfe0f07d38517d408fd6658aa017b9.jpg ad07561f7b318d1b528454d9adaebef6 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, December 21, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, December 21, 1921 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 December 21, 1921 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 December 21, 1921 Mr.Tsai, Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Your letter of November 17 has been duly received. The boy is getting on well, though he did not react quite so rapidly after the operation as we had hoped. After talking with the doctor, I decided to let him invest a week with some very good friends in the outskirts of the town, who have on several occasions ministered to the needs of our Eastern friends. He responded well to this change; and when he left for Hartford several days ago, he seemed in excellent health and spirits. Mr. Manning, at my request, gave him private instruction to help him in making good the losses in his school work incurred by his illness. Before Guo Fang left, I went over with him in detail his cash account. I haven’t the figures with me at the moment, but, as I recall it, he had a balance of about $1000 on hand. The operation, nurses expenses, and infirmary changres will, of course, make a pretty big hole in this, for it costs a good bit to be sick nowadays, at least in this country. Dr. Balch, who performed the operation, is one of the best surgeons in New England and is regularly called by us for operations of this kind. As he gets not infrequently as much as $1000 for an operation, the charge of $300 in this case is reasonable. I have always felt in matters of this kind the extra investment is a safe and wise insurance. I am enclosing the bills as they have come to me, as you have requested. If it turns out that any of those concerned are in a hurry for their pay, I will see that their accounts are met from the funds which I have on hand. Yes, we are all watching with the keenest interest and the fondest hopes what is going on at Washington these days. If only China had a stable government that commanded the respect and confidence not only of the world but of her own people, I believe that practically everything she desires as a nation would be granted at this time. As it is, much good has been accomplished and final and full justice must, inevitably be done, unless we are compelled to acknowledge that nations have no standards of honesty and morality, what ever they may profess. The Washington conference means, in my judgement, a long step forward towards the day when international confidence and goodwill shall be accepted as a matter of course, as they are between friends and reputable business concerns. You have had so many travelling pedagogues from America in your section of the world of late that I should almost hesitate to follow the beaten path these worthies, even if the opportunity presented itself. I hope, however, you won’t take everything that is preached to you as gospel truth, or even as representing always the best opinions of America educators. Messrs, Dewey and Russel, at least, are far from being worshiped by the leading and most thoughtful educators of America, even though they have large followings among the more noisy and so-called “modern educational psychologists. I don’t know one of my school master friends, or college presidents even, who accept the teachings of these men, at least without many and pronounced reservations. Please remember me most warmly to your boys and your son-in-law, Yit Sing Wang, all of whom I remember with sincere affection and in whose life and progress my interest is as keen as ever. This letter should reach you not long before the New Year festivities are upon; so accept also my heartiest good wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/003c7719b085796e78eda28d65c5d8ec.jpg bf979b53f9d8056f354e8dbefb4ad39c 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 13, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, October 13, 1921 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 13, 1921 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 October 18, 1921 Mr.Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: You will be perhaps a bit surprised and a good bit interested, I am sure, to learn that Kuo Feng has just passed through the ordeal of an operation for appendicitis. The operation appears, I am glad to say, to have been wholly successful and the condition of the appendix removed was found to be such as to indicate clearly that the boy would doubles have faced serious complications from it in the near future if the matter had not been taken in hand at this time. Dr.Balch, the specialist who performed the operation, is one of the leading surgeons in Boston, and indeed in this country, and the one upon whom we regularly call I emergencies of this kind. The youngster has not been feeling quite himself for a number of weeks; indeed once or twice last year he had several semi-attacks which undermined his strength and robbed him of some of usual vitality. It seems clear now that all of those troubles were undoubtedly the result of the troublesome appendix which has now been removed. I am sure that the boy will find himself in far better condition from now on than he was before the operation was performed. Of course just at present he is suffering with natural after-effects of an operation of this kid and for a day or two yet will doubtless be a bit uncomfortable. I have just come from the infirmary and find that he is feeling much more comfortable and happy this morning than was the case yesterday. The operation itself was performed two days ago. I shall, of course, advise you promptly if anything unfavorable in the situation should develop, though the doctor feels confident that there is no ground for apprehension on this score. I trust that you will approve of all that has been done. We have acted as we would have done in the case of any one of our boys similarly afflicted and in your absence the formal authority for the operation was granted by me. I received a letter from Dr. Ferguson yesterday who tells me that there is some slight chance that I may have the privilege of seeing in this country again in the not distant future our mutual friend, Mr. L.T.Liang. Why can’t you join him, if the trip is decided upon? In view of the family connection, it does seem as if you were entitled to another glimpse of America with the consequent opportunity to renew old friendships and establish new ones. I can assure you that a hearty welcome will await you. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/18a45a5ea016c993fb9bf0200ceb98d0.jpg 50ec8a99dd3dc9bf7edaa4b6a33bac18 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 28, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, September 28, 1921 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 28, 1921 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 September 28, 1921 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr.Tsai: Let me acknowledge the receipt of and thank you for your most interesting letter of August 31 and the accompanying draft for $1600 which I am depositing, as requested, to the credit of your boy Kuo Fang. The youngster appears to be getting on very well, though he has not made the high record in scholarship that we could all like to see. In this respect, however, he has done somewhat better of late and his record at the tutoring camp this summer was exceptionally good. I am hoping that the Andover record this year will be the best of his course to date. In every other way, the boy is open to little criticism, though I cannot help feeling that his general good nature and the popularity which this brings to him with his mates must be held in check a bit if they are not to exhort a bad influence on the boy’s character as a whole. In my relations with him, he his all that could be desired, for he never hesitates to accept my criticisms with good spirit and to do his best apparently to carry out such suggestions with good spirit as I have made to him from time to time. I earnestly hope that when he returns to China later he will be in every way qualified to meet and help solve effectively the big problems that your country confronts at this time. It is certainly a real pleasure to have had a part in preparing these boys for the great opportunities which lie ahead of them in their homeland. Yes, the photograph reached me safely, only a few days ago however, and I have not had the chance until today to thank you for it. It reposes in my study and I shall always value it highly, chiefly for its constant suggestion of your friendship and your confidence in me as well as the memories it prompts of personal kindness to me when I met you in China a few years ago. I am sorry to hear that you are still troubled with hard times in China in the way of floods and political disturbances. It seems as if the whole world had been compelled to face more than its proper allowance of hardship and disaster during recent years. The saddest part of it is that most of these troubles were man’s own making, though, of course, this cannot be said of famine and flood in China. I only hope that better times are ahead for us all. Please remember me next warmly to the other members of your family and accept for yourself this expression of friendship and goodwill. I wish that I might be privileged to meet you again some day either in your country or in my own. Sincerely and gratefully yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2b4a963e486e314a5e28e9c616b482df.jpg 3f81388f7808357b9053bf08e6205774 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 10, 1921 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, February 10, 1921 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 10, 1921 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 February 10, 1921 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China My dear Mr. Tsai: Let me thank you for your very generous letter of January 10. You have given me quite a contract, but I will do what I can, though frankly admitting my limitation, to see that Kuo-fang keeps his head within proper bounds. I do not believe that the boy is in serious danger of losing his balance, though undue popularity is always a dangerous thing for any fellow of that age. I have always found the youngster exceedingly responsive to suggestion and advice, and I have no reason to believe that he will not continue to maintain this friendly attitude towards me and such suggestions as I may feel called upon to give him from time to time. I feel more than ever in touch with China this year, as I have under my own roof five Chinese boys and one girl. Three of these youngsters, including the girl, are full members of my regular family circle, but the other three boys are merely rooming in the house and attending the school, but naturally I see a good bit of then all. It is a most interesting and delightful experience, for it would be difficult to find anywhere more agreeable or responsive members for my household. Very likely you know the parents of some of these youngsters. Those in my immediate family are the sons and daughter of Mr.Sun Chung Yin of Tientsin. Mr. She also comes from Tientsin, and Mr.Kung’s home is in Shanghai. Please remember me to Kuo Tsao and Kuo Pao, both of whom I still remember with the friendliest feelings, and believe me with personal regards Very sincerely yours, Principal Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/6d3909229134e91c0d683e46a065b0aa.jpg 3a923a069d20678c541d43e428fb67a8 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, December 7, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, December 7, 1920 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 December 7, 1920 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 December 7,1920 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie, 5 Pace Course Road, Tientsin, China. My dear Mr. Tsai: Let me acknowledge receipt of your letter of November 10th, enclosing draft on the International Backing Corporation of York for sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600.00), to be credited to the account of your boy, Kuo-fang. I am enclosing statement to date by which you will rote that there is a balance at the prevent time remaining your son's favor of $452.04. We have so many Chinese boys here this year that I feel more closely in touch with your good country than I have felt since my actual visit there a few years ago. Hardly a day goes by that I do not receive letters from China or send letters there myself. Only two days ago our latest arrival appeared from Tientsin, Mr. Quincy Sheh,whom you no doubt know. I am glad to report that Kuo-fang still appears to be getting ahead, but sometimes I am a bit fearful lest his exceptional popularity among the boys in general may tend to upset his equilibrium a bit, but so far I have noted no indications that the effect has been anything but temporary. With kindest personal regards, believe me always. Very sincerely yours. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9f919d285e60e17550715be3d554cf80.jpg abda46abbce8ff00656472d80b0aca0a 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin June 22, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, June 22, 1920 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 22, 1920 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 22 June, 1920. Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China. My dear Tsai: Your very generous and interesting letter of May 26th has just reached me. Kuo Fang has just left us to attend the Student Conference at Silver Bay, N.Y., Where lie will pass a week with a picked group of boys from our leading schools and colleges, after which he intends to go to the summer camp in Maine where he passed last summer with what seems to me real profit. I appreciate your willingness to allow me to continue to handle the boy’s finances without rendering you detailed reports. Please bear in mind, however, that I shall be very glad to render such reports if over and whenever you desire. The boy is proving in every way a most acceptable member of the school community, and appears to be making steady program in his work. Thank you, too, for permitting me to see the snapshots of Kuo-Pao and his bride. I shall eagerly await the opportunity. Please remember me very warmly to him, and believe me, with kindest personal regards, Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/120c65da0ee2addbc00e33c8416a3502.jpg 81c1ca0e0004a32ef86e204bfdaf75a5 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/440d32f94b2b1aa6ac02705ad6ad923c.jpg dde7f63eb1b836540dc7405a0d6beda8 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 18, 1920 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, March 18, 1920 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 18, 1920 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 18 March, 1920 Mr. Tsai Shou Kie 5 Race Course Road Tientsin, China. My dear Mr. Tsai : Let me acknowledge receipt of your kind and interesting letter of February 6th and the draft for $1,660.00 to be credited to the account of your son Kuo Fong. I am enclosing herewith a statement of the boy’s account to date together with the receipts for the various bills that have been paid. As you can well imagine, it has been impossible for me to keep the boy’s expenses down within the limits which obtained in the cases of his two older brothers. The cost of everything in this country has jumped so tremendously since the war that every outlay involves an increase of from fifty to a hundred per cent. We have struggled to keep our own school expenses down to the lowest possible limit, and with that end in view have only recently finished a campaign for a million and a half dollars, a campaign which I am glad to say has resulted most successfully. So far as I can Judge, Kuo Fong has not displayed any tendencies to extravagance. He seems to appreciate the situation, and to all appearance is not spending any more money proportionately than his older brothers. It seems to me only fair under the circumstances to increase his monthly allowance for incidentals a bit; for fifteen dollars a month has no greater purchasing power than did the ten dollars allowed his brothers. I hope that you will approve of this action on my part. For the sake of us all I most certainly that prices will ere long begin to drop a bit; for it has been a hard pull these past two or three years, especially for the professional man. Thank you so much for telling me what the boys are doing in China. It is good to hear of them once more; and I certainly hope that they are fulfilling all your ambitions for them and proving that the American education and experience were of some real and lasting value. Certainly we have never had in our school three finer boys than these boys of yours. Kuo Fong is immensely popular with boys and teachers alike, and it is a real delight to have him here. In his work, too, he seems to be taking hold with good spirit and making definite progress. I shall never forget the good times my friends gave me in China a few years back and the unbounded friendliness and good will which characterized their attentions to me at that time. It is one of the brightest spots in my memory to-day, and if I long enough and can find the time and money to do it, I hope to get one more glimpse of your interesting country and some of my good friends out there before I die. In my judgment the stricken world to-day can loam much from China and Chinese ideals. With kindest regards to the various members of your family and to any of my good friends out there who have not forgotten me, believe me always Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/15b66c14b21e3f6ae25d1203687e6a3f.jpg dbb0ed98ba219d89210452c122dd79d9 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, October 21, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, Phillips Academy, October 21, 1924 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 21, 1924 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 81 Council Road, Tientsin, China, October 21, 1924 My dear Mr. Stearns: In acknowledging your most welcome letter of September 13, I wish to express my appreciation of your kind and frank sentiments. I am indeed sorry that Kuo-fang has given you so much disappointment and discouragement. There is no one, I know, who is more anxious to make a man out of the boy and takes deeper interest in him than you are. The value of your advice and guidance will be appreciated sooner or later by him as he grows older, I am sure. Whatever indiscretion he has committed and annoyance he has caused you, I beg that you will accept my sincere regret. I have already reprimanded him in the severest terms for his failure in scholarship, the dissatisfaction in his general behavior and the manner of extravagance. I have also given him the warning that should there no immediate improvement be in evidence within a short time, I shall be compelled to resort to a drastic measure. Kuo-tsao wrote me from Haines Falls of his expected visit to New England in the latter part of September. He may have seen you by this time. With warmest personal regards, believe me always Yours very sincerely Mr.Alfred E. Stearns, Principal, Phillips Academy, Andover, Lass., U. S. A. Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b3330405295ac289612e2eba03bb875b.jpg 945d006655df373c2c44c65be80fd31c 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 Stearns Folder 5037, 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 Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 29, 1924 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Tsai Shou Kie, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, August 29, 1924 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tsai Shou Kie 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 August 29, 1924 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 Description An account of the resource 81 Council Road Tientsin, China, August 29, 1924 August 29, 1924 My dear Mr. Stearns: I beg to inform you that a sum of two thousand gold dollars ($2,000) was remitted to you by telegraphic transfer on the 28th instant thru the International Bank of New York for Kuo Fang’s expenses. With reference to Kuo Fang’s future, I have instructed Kuo Tsao to see what best arrangement can be made for him. In case it comes to the decision of sending the boy home, then whatever the balance left on hand, after a complete settlement of all his accounts, may be turned over to Kuo Tsao. If it should be better for the boy to remain and further his studies in the States, it is my earnest wish that you will be kind enough to continue in giving him the benefit of your guardianship. I presume you have by this time received my letter of July the 5th. The last I heard of Kuo Tsao that he is recuperating himself in the Catskill Mountains. He has no date of returning to China yet. With kindest regards in which Kuo Pao joins, Very sincerely yours, Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Tsai Shou Kie