Inscribed "XMas 72 To Michael and Louise and Gabriella, may we help create these words in an up direction we'll need the babies! Help Gabby- hope you and your friends continue to make the revolution Love, Aunt Ha Hornet"

From Wikipedia "Rewi Alley, 路易•艾黎, Lùyì Àilí, QSO, MM (2 December 1897 – 27 December 1987), was a New Zealand-born writer, educator, political activist, revolutionary, social reformer, potter, and member of the Communist Party of China.
Rewi Alley was a prolific western writer about 20th century China, and especially about the Communist revolution. He dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause of the Communist Party of China, and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, and technical training schools, including the Peili Vocational Institute, better known as the Bailie Vocational Institute in Beijing. The school is now known in English as the Beijing Bailie University."