Two copies of Porter's script for 'The Night Sky in August' on the meaning of the word 'star' and its use in the term 'morning star', as Venus now is, and in 'evening star', as applies to Jupiter, Saturn and Mars at present; Mars growing brighter as the Earth moves towards it, the direction of motion of the Earth in space, the point in the sky towards which we are moving and the increase in the number of shooting stars after midnight; the motion of the solar system as a whole around the galactic centre in Sagittarius and our movement towards Vega; the Milky Way being visible running through Capella, Cassiopeia and Cygnus, whilst Vega and Lyra do not lie in its path; Epsilon, Gamma and Beta Lyrae, the Ring Nebula, its formation, and planetary nebulae; other gas shell stars, such as Beta Lyrae, which is a variable star first reported by John Goodricke, and is an example of an eclipsing binary, and something of a mystery because of its very complex spectrum; the theory of binary stars revolving rapidly in a shell of luminous gas; and the 10th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Moscow. The second copy of the script is annotated.