Autograph letter signed : London, to Sally Ryan, 1938 Sept. 9.

Complaining about his debts and the delays incurred in publishing his drawings, he traces the cause to "the political situation" which "makes people damned cautious." He asks: "what are artists to do? When business men & people who do nothing but work at making money all day start complaining." Conditions in London made him "feel that the 'tempo' here is getting too slow & might even degenerate into a funeral or funereal march. I wonder if we'll awake here only to the sound of bombs." Despite this, he writes that he "cannot imagine myself working in New York; as you say, feverish hustling upsetting."