To Charles Augustus Strong
75 Monmouth St
Brookline, Massachusetts. April 16, [1900]
I am awfully sorry that I can’t get off either for lunch or dinner today, and I am afraid I shall miss you this time altogether. It would be a great pleasure to see you, and I have a letter of James’s . . . with some rich things about my new book which it would amuse you to see, besides no end of James—[onian—]isms on other subjects. (The extra syllables may not be right, but the subject deserves them!) He says my philosophy is “the perfection of rottenness”, that he never read anything so “imperturbably impudent,” etc, etc.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow NY