To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Hotel Bristol
Rome. May 3, 1939
I will send you Chestov’s book in a few days, when I have finished it. His history is weak, and his views of other philosophers out of focus and arbitrary; but I like him for being unworldly or anti-mundane, as apparently Russians are. Sorry I haven’t anything else, but nowadays I don’t send for philosophy books, and get only some American ones sent me by the publishers. Would you like “Dewey’s Logic?” I see The Times Lit. Sup. calls it a major work, I find it utterly unreadable. Perhaps it is important, at any rate it is a ponderous tome, and you shall have it if you want it. I still preserve calm about the danger of trouble. People like excitement—at home.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937-1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY