TLS signed “Jerome David,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, February 14, 1939. Letter to pianist Joseph Cooper, in full: "I'm afraid if I do not dictate this right here and now it will be another lunga pausa. So forgive me and accept best thanks for your reference to my birthday and felicitations upon yours. I, too, have been reintroduced to Yesterdays by Mr. Artie Shaw, a virtuoso, if I ever heard one. Poor Mr. Dolan on that floundering, experimental, faltering Circle Hour hasn't had any sort of break as yet. He is capable of magnificent things and should roll around soon with a bull's-eye. His is not the same arranger as Kostie's, but an amusing youngster, perhaps over-cultivated in everything including music, named Conrad Salinger. Comes from a good background in Boston, studied music in France and has been going great guns out here for a couple of years. Did some of the scene change arrangements of Gentlemen Unafraid—that West Point Civil War saga we tried out in St. Louis last August, where it laid an egg, just as you prophesied it would. When I left New York last November, the new crop had not arrived, but I did see Oscar Wilde which affected me ditto, also Lincoln and Our Town. Kiss the Boys, I found the world's tedious waste of time. I am sure Shirmer or Chappell can supply Chopin for two pianos. I don't know about the Ravel. Show Boat music was never arranged for two pianos, but Harms, Inc. has a corker for two pianos of George's Concerto in F, arranged, I think, by George himself. Bronchially, I have nothing of which to complain. I cannot leave here before April, but you make me sick with your pianoforte activity. I can no longer strike a simple C–Major tonic chord without faltering. My left hand is inept and my memory gone completely. A simple major scale makes me weep with vexation. But I hope you and the family are bonnie and thriving." In fine condition.Format: TLS