[ Autograph ] Du Bose Heyward (1885 -1940 American author whose dramatized version of Porgy was the basis for George Cershwin's Porgy and Bess. Witty T.L.S. " DuBose", 1p. 4to., Charleston [n.d.] to a lady "Zenith". In part: ...You have been missed dreadfully hereabouts The Whole police force is down in the mouth, Chief Wise spends most of his time sobbing into his beer. The army, in the person of GeneralParker sulks in its tent... all quite horrible, and it ended by breaking me down completely...' Of her book, he writes: "...I can understand your killing off London and Scotland Yard in a round nine days, but my God this is Charleston! Don't you know what happens to naughty profane little girls?... Helen Hayes, Mcarthur. Orson Welles are with us and Im taking them to view the glories of the Dock StreetTheater...' Small tear at bottom, away from text, otherwise very good