To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Hotel Danieli
Venice, Italy. December 18, 1939
Today I have received from Miss Tindall the double copy of my last two chapters, and will revise it during the next few days. If you care to see these chapters in view of your contribution to Schilpp’s book, I can send you the carbon copy. I have revised the rest of the book already, and was much pleased to see that when you got to the chapter on Liberation, you woke up, and actually corrected not only the punctuation but also in places the arrangement and choice of words. I wish you had done more of this, as your suggestions are almost always good. At least they show me that there is something wrong, which I may straighten out in one way or another. But the best thing is that, towards the end of this chapter, you seem to have made the argument your own for the moment and wished to express it better. Of course I am old and tired, and although there are good things, often old things, in this book there are bound to be lapses and platitudes also, and repetitions!
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937-1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY