To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Hotel Miramonti
Cotina d’Ampezzo, Italy. July 25, 1934
It is reassuring to hear that you are not contemplating any rash commitments in the way of marriage and supporting a family. If you find a sympathetic lady, who is independent, I see no obstacles to a union: it is not being married but being responsible for a family, and tied to it, that might be a drag on your philosophy.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY