To Justus Buchler and Benjamin P. Schwartz
C/o Brown, Shipley & Co 123, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. July 23, 1934
Messrs. Justus Buchler & Benjamin P. Schwartz
Apart from this danger of repetition—and there is a lot of virtual repetition in my writings, as they stand—I see no objection to republishing my obiter scripta, if you or anyone thinks it worth while; but I would rather not be the editor myself. Although my feeling is—contrary to what some critics assert—that I have always held the same opinions, I am aware of a distinct change, in temper and manner, between my professorial days, when I was (except in vacations) in America, and my free-lance days, when I have lived in Europe: and I don’t like the earlier manner, and don’t wish to re-assert any claim to it. If others, however, like those things, I am perfectly willing that they should like them, as if they were the work of someone else. I should leave it entirely for you to judge, therefore, whether any old scraps of mine deserved to be re-issued.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn NY