To Charles Augustus Strong
C/o Brown Shipley & Co
123 Pall Mall
At Sea CUNARD R.M.S. “MAURETANIA”. July 18, 1909
Dear Strong,
You may be surprised to see that, at this late date, I am on my way to England. My brother changed his plans, and as my mother is pretty well, I decided after all to take my usual outing. However, I hardly expect to leave England, so that I am afraid I sha’n’t see you unless by some fortunate chance you have finally run off your beaten track and ventured across the Channel. Why don’t you come for a change? It has often seemed to me that you might like England very much if you only went there a little oftener.
Please give my best regards to Margaret—I suppose she is such a young lady that I ought’n’t to send her my “love”, unless it is the uncle-like sort of love which I am now in the habit of dispensing to young people.—Let me have a word from you—
Yours G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY