Letters to Dorothy Needham from her husband Joseph Needham. Chiefly letters and postcards sent home by J N during visits abroad, giving detailed accounts of his activities. In the course of these visits the Needhams were prolific correspondents but no drafts or copies of Dorothy’s letters to her husband were found. 9 files as follows:
1) Telegram sent by J N from Osborne Laboratory, Newhaven, Connecticut, 25 September 1940, stating ‘Please reply whether all right’. The telegram is annotated ‘Merciful preservation we’ve had.’;
2) 1967 August. Corsica, Leeds;
3) 1977 June-July. Mexico, USA;
4) 1978 April. New York;
5) 1979 September-November. Switzerland, Hong Kong;
6) 1980 May. USA;
7) 1981 August-September. Rumania, China, Japan, Hong Kong;
8) 1982 August, Belgium, Norway; 1983 August, Stockholm, Venice; 1983 October - November, Singapore, USA;
9) 1984 August - September, China, Taiwan; 1986 May, West Germany; 1986 December, Japan.