To Charles Augustus Strong
Hotel “La Peninsular”
Seville, Spain. Feb. 19, 1914.
I live day and night with open windows and blinds half drawn–to keep out the excessive sunlight, and the violets and crocuses are already in bloom, and everything promises a Spring of an overpowering intensity.
When it rains here, too, it is in a torrential fashion, as if Zeus were really venting his wrath.
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