To John Hall Wheelock
Grand Hotel
Rome. March 25, 1941
I am now having no difficulty in receiving money from America from my nephew, but the future seems uncertain; perhaps, if these remittances are stopped by the war, I shall have to leave Italy, which would put me to great inconvenience, even if I could get out. But my nephew is active, and he would discover some way of getting funds to me. We could even appeal to President Roosevelt. He knows who I am; I have a letter of his (not addressed to me, but to Mr. Harrison Reeves) in which he calls me “dear old Santayana.”
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Seven, 1941-1947. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ