To Isabella Stewart Gardner
3 Prescott Hall
Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 13, 1909.
Dear Mrs Gardner,
Mrs Berenson tells me that you are thinking of going to my lecture on the 28th. It will be so nice to see you there, and I shall feel less lost before a strange audience, and less foolish for saying things that perhaps no one would understand—at least, as I meant them.
I am having two tickets sent you from New York, in case there is anyone with you who wants to come too.
I caught a sidelong glimpse of you at the tennis court last Saturday. The Coolidges have added a charming feature to Cambridge, I think, by building this court. It is just the sort of thing we need to give us a little more distinction.
Yours sincerely
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA