Inscribed on the half title: "For Art & Jeanne [Stockett], Few, if any, have been more gracious & tolerant of my foibles than you two sweethearts; may your hearts be consecrated in marriage soon. Love Neal. (Dean hissemself!)" Inscription dated 7-3-66. Cassady was Kerouac's inspiration for the character Dean Moriarty, copies of the novel signed by Cassady are quite uncommon. According to Stockett's daughter, "Arthur's good buddy Neal inscribed the On The Road while Arthur and his soon to be wife, and Neal and his girlfriend, were at Big Sur for a wild week end trip". Stockett is known to have taken a series of erotic photographs of Neal with his lady friend.