To Cyril Coniston Clemens
C/o Brown Shipley & Co
123, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. August 11, 1937
Dear Clemens,
Mr. Phillips duly sent me the medal, and I don’t understand how I have neglected to thank you for it until now. I had already thanked you for the honour: the material pledge slipped from my mind. You know I am not a collector of possessions.
Thank you also for this new nomination to your “Philosophical Committee,” provided it is merely nominal. A real committee that meets is, according to my experience, incompatible with philosophy. I have renounced them all.
Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937-1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC