Nov 28th, 1951

I am sitting in my office at the University. It is Wednesday afternoon, normally a holiday, but with the end-of-term exams starting next week both students and staff are hard at it. I have just walked through the library and seen blue blazers hunched over every table. The students are distractedly preparing to answer anticipated questions, while I am distractedly trying to find questions for them to answer! We are all getting stressed so it was particularly agreeable to go out at the weekend with Tseng Yu to pay another visit to painter Mr Huang. He did another lightning sketch of me - this time in colour - and also of two Chinese journalists who were visiting him. The portrait of one of the journalists looked exceptionally like a monkey when Mr Huang had finished so his friend took the brush and wrote on it, in beautiful Chinese calligraphy, the poem which translates as:
DO NOT ASK MY NAME
I WOULD RATHER YOU DID NOT KNOW IT.
AND AS FOR MY ORIGIN
NO NEED TO ASK DARWIN,
THE PICTURE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF