27 letters give news of friends and family, express her love, describe the refurbishment of K1 and K2 in Gonville and Caius College, laboratory work and lectures, painting, holidays, correcting proofs of 'H of Emb'(possibly a reprint of History of Embryology 1st published in 1931), theatre trips including Chinese Classical Theatre at the Adelphi in London, meeting of the Nuclear Disarmament Committee, newspaper reports about the political situation in Sri Lanka, income from Cambridge University Press for Volumes 1 and 2 of Science and Civilisation in China, and Lu Gwei-Djen’s plans for her journey. Includes 1 telegram from Joseph Needham in Sri Lanka to Dorothy Needham dated 29 Apr. 1958. With annotations by Joseph Needham recording the city where the letters were received, highlighting questions or issues requiring attention, and notes for his replies to Dorothy.