To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Hotel Miramonti
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. June 23, 1931
Here I am at last comfortably established, in a very clean quiet hotel. As yet there are only two or three clerical-looking English families, but even in August, when the Italians arrive, I expect that I shall be able to stand it. It is pleasantly cool, and the mountain air doesn’t seem to affect me. I have a bathroom (without a window) but the bedroom is largish and I have arranged the chaise-longue and the table in such a way that I am sure of being materially encouraged to work. It is like the quarters we had at Glion, only a good deal more spacious—and of course the landscape is more idyllic, a village in the heart of the Alps become a centre for tourists.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928–1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY