To Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck Morrell
22 Beaumont Street Friday
Oxford, England. Friday [Autumn 1916?]
Dear Lady Ottoline,
I am very sorry that the unsettled weather and my somewhat shaky condition hardly allow me to come this afternoon. It was very kind of you to suggest it.
Pastor wouldn’t have been able to go today in any case, as he has something apparently very important on hand—I don’t know what—but he seems preoccupied and asks me to thank you in his name.
I hope you received my discourse, and that you won’t feel obliged to read it—at least not all. What would reading be but for skipping!
Yours sincerely, G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin