To Paul Arthur Schilpp
Hotel Danieli,
Venice. May 9, 1940

Dear Professor Schilpp

This is merely to report that I have now received Friess & Rosenthal’s essay, or rather dialogue. I am astonished to see how thoroughly these critics have read and pondered my rather casual effusions. It is only recently that such consideration is shown to me; formerly I was disregarded, and got quite used to it.

From The Letters of George Santayana:  Book Six, 1937–1940.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.