I decline to sit in a hot room and eat dead animals, even with you to amuse me.

George Bernard Shaw says no.

George Bernard Shaw’s decline postcard. (Harry Ransom Center, Texas.)

According to Vivian Elliot in her 1987 book, Dear Mr Shaw, Irish playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw sent somewhere in the region of 250’000 letters and postcards during his lifetime, the majority in response to strangers seeking either advice, money, a photograph, an autograph, …