Others matters discussed include Alley's excursion to North West China to 'look at reconstruction after the 1975 earthquake there'; the invention of a cure for vitiligo by 'two old Uighur doctors' in Sinkiang Province. Attached to the letter are two poems by Alley written whilst in Sinkiang Province entitled 'Karakoya' and 'On visiting the Hsiang Pei Tomb at Kashgar'.