To John Hall Wheelock
C/o Brown Shipley & Co
123, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Paris. June 28, 1936
I see you have agreed on the name Avila for the limited edition, so that my suggestion of Triton falls to the ground. My friends here also think Avila excellent: but I am afraid people will call it Avilla or Aveéla, which will sound just as well, no doubt, to their ears; but the place is called Ah´vila, Latin Abula, with the adjective, even in modern Spanish, Abulense; and it would shock a native ear to hear it accented otherwise.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ