To Horace Meyer Kallen
75 Monmouth St
Brookline, MA. June 11, 1907
Dear Kallen,
Here is something by way of compensation for your work in Phil. 10. In the old days when B. Rand used to read blue-books for me I used to give him fifty cents for each, but it would be an insult to put you in the same class, even if wages hadn’t gone up in the interval. However, if there is any fraction over the regulation scale, pray spend it in Germany on cakes and ale—I mean on Bier and Pfannkuchen—which I thought excellent thought-food in my day.
I hope you have really got out of the infirmary and will not allow the cares of this world and the next to keep you any longer awake o’nights.
Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati OH