The file title is ‘Joseph's China Diaries (1940s)’. It file contains a letter from William F. Jordan and a reply from Joseph Needham relating to Rewi Alley, the Friends’ Ambulance Unit and memories of the time William Jordan spent in Shantan in 1946. It also includes a typescript of Newsletter No.4 from the Research Office for Rewi Alley’s Works dated 19 Jan. 1989, which relates to a meeting of his friends on the anniversary of his death and the distribution of Rewi Alley’s possessions according to his Will.