To John Hall Wheelock
Hotel Bristol
Rome. April 1, 1937
I always thought Denman Ross’s portrait of me rather absurd. It makes a giant with a Japanese mask of a poor ordinary Caucasian, far from tall but rather amiable. Ross was an amateur painter and not in any way gifted; but this picture adorns the College, and you were quite right in reproducing it.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937-1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ