Autograph Letter Signed, "my love to you both" and a tiny self portrait to his friends in California ("Hy fellers!") One large sheet, 17x14 inches, tightly written and continued around the margins. No date. Compliments their letter writing, and asks, "How would you like to do a piece on Hollywood for the American Mercury?...They have been after me to do some Hollywood drawings similar in treatment to the ones I did on Harlem. They followed my suggestion on the Harlem drawings by using Zora Neal Hurston for the text. Talks about his activities, "Went up to Boston last week to see....'American Sycamore.' Its a wonderful frail play bitched unmercifully by incompetent directing and decor." Comments on Thornton Wilders Skin of Our Teeth "The real weakness of Wilders play is its third act. It seems impossible to resolve a contemporary play which seeks a solution for a better world." Goes on in the same vein about 'Russian People.' Talks about John Mason Brown, Brooks Atkinson,Don Freeman,Cole Porter, Mike Todd, Alex King, Herbert and Dorothy Field, Closes by lamenting his bachelorhood, "I am rapidly becoming a woman-hater again. My adventures of the past few months are too sordid and depressing to write about-If you cannot think of a gal who will put up with my stupidities and make coffee for me at odd hours I am afraid I shall become an onanist!"
