To Charles Augustus Strong
22 Beaumont Street
Oxford, April 28, 1916
I am glad to have news of you, as I was beginning to wonder if you really had got to Banff or were hiding elsewhere. Perils and dangers are so evenly spread nowadays that I hardly think Margaret will be more exposed at Cambridge than the rest of us elsewhere. As everything indicates that the Germans (having again lost a good many submarines) will comply with Mr Wilson’s demands, or as many as he may ultimately insist upon, you will at least be able to sail safely in the “New Amsterdam” in June, and can live safely for a while, if not deliciously, in America. It is extraordinary how soon and how humorously we become accustomed to danger.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Two, 1910-1920. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY