To Otto Kyllmann
9 Avenue de l’Observatoire
Paris. June 30, 1928
Dear Mr Kyllmann,
I feel much honoured by Dr. Schweizer’s desire to make some one of my books known in Germany, where, as far as I know, nothing of mine, or about me, has appeared. His competence for the task may be taken for granted, and I leave it to you (as agreed between us recently) to decide about any fees to be charged. My own feeling is, in this case, that they ought to be nominal only, or be remitted altogether, as the undertaking would not be remunitative, I suppose, but rather the opposite. Or you might ask for a fee conditionally, in case the profits of the translation should exceed a certain amount.
Yours sincerely,
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928–1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia PA