To Isabella Stewart Gardner
3 Prescott Hall
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jan. 19, 1909
Dear Mrs Gardner,
I am so sorry that I sha’n’t have the pleasure of seeing you in my audience at the Plaza. Of course the evening is an impossible time for lectures at this season. I didn’t know myself, when I talked to the Berensons about it, that the hour would be 8.30, else I should have warned every body.
I sincerely wish I might be at the opera with you, instead of discoursing to the lecture-goers. But such is fate.
Yours sincerely
G Santayana.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA