To Constable and Co. Ltd.
C/o Brown Shipley & Co
123 Pall Mall, S.W.1
Cortina, Italy. July 26, 1924
Dear Sirs,
Whenever anyone asks for permission to quote from any of my books, you may assume that you have my consent. It is for you to decide whether the quotation amounts to an infringement of copyright: although I should think, in most cases, citation of extracts would be a valuable advertisement, and that it would be in your interest to agree to it; unless, indeed, you find that the more an author is quoted, the less anyone will wish to buy his books.
Yours faithfully,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia PA