To John Hall Wheelock
Hotel Bristol
Rome. Dec. 16, 1937
Dear Mr. Wheelock,
Many thanks for your cheque for $3,136.14, which reaches me, as a present, on the 74th anniversary of my birthday. I suppose this is the last large payment that will come in consequence of my novel, or other books, but I console myself by thinking that perhaps in other ways the future of my books may be better than the past.
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Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937-1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ