Typed letter signed : London, to J. S. Collis, 1927 Mar. 17.

Explaining that "when people tell me that they will commit suicide in a certain event -- which may be through a shock to their religious belief, a failure to let them have £50 by return of post, or a refusal to elope with her -- I reply ... that they wont [sic], because it is always easier to wait until tomorrow on the chance of someting amusing turning up in the meantime"; noting that as a young man he used to respond to such suicide threats by "explain[ing] elaborately how to do it painlessly with hydrocyanic acid," and "all the recipients of this prescription are still alive, or have died a natural death"; discussing his life in England ca. 1876-1883; thanking him for sending a copy of his book [Shaw, Collis's biography of G.B. Shaw] and mentioning a review he saw in the Spectator. With a manuscript postscript telling Collis that he has already read a bit of the book in the train.