To Charles Augustus Strong
Hotel Bauer Grünwald
Venice. June 4, 1924
I am having an enchanted floating existence here (not that I ever take a gondola) and wish it could last for ever. Venice is more excitingly beautiful than anything I have ever seen—and I had been here twice before without seeing it! The weather has threatened twice to become oppressive, and then has relented. I have found a second nice restaurant—out in the middle of a little piazza in front of the Teatro Fenice, where I now go to dine, surrounded by towering old walls and a deep saphire sky. Nevertheless, I have written to have my letters sent to the Hotel Cristallo, Cortina d’Ampezzo, as at any moment I may be driven away by heat.
Work continues lazily.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY