This letter expresses a hope that Joseph Needham enjoyed his 80th birthday celebration in Shanghai, gives thanks for an evening that he and Su Fei spent with Joseph Needham and Rewi Alley and mentions Talitha Gerlack. Includes a newspaper cutting from the Guangming Daily entitled ‘Li Yuese yu Zhong-guo’ 李約瑟與中國 ('Joseph Needham and China').