To Cyril Coniston Clemens
Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, 6
Rome. April 7, 1945
Dear Clemens,
Your letter, and your present of most welcome little luxuries have arrived safely: but I am afraid books, as being only ghostly goods, cannot yet reach us. We ought to send these to you in exchange, but I am afraid, we are reduced to importing them also. However, a very lively young man named Viereck left me yesterday a copy of a small Italian review called Mercurio in which there are some good articles, and much evidence of “liveliness” in the intellectual sector. With my best thanks and wishes
Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Seven, 1941-1947. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Location of manuscript: William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham NC