To Charles Augustus Strong
University Club
San Francisco. August 20, 1911
I am afraid it is going to be impossible for me to get to Cleveland before you leave. I should change my plans and go directly there, were my ticket not already taken by another route; I am to go to Southern California and then via the Grand Canyon, which I am going to look at so that people may not say I have come here and missed all the great sights. Landscape, however, especially sensational and merely strange landscape, leaves me personally pretty cold.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Two, 1910-1920. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY