To Charles Hartshorne
C/o Brown Shipley & Co.
123, Pall Mall, S.W.1 London
Paris. September 1, 1928
Dear Mr Hartshorne,
There is little that I can say about Charles Peirce of any importance. He hasn’t had any direct influence on me. On the one occasion when I saw and heard him, I was struck by his very unacademic personality, and I have always remembered with profit a distinction which he made in his lecture that evening between “index”, “sign”, and “symbol”. When his posthumous essays came out, I read and liked them; but except through his connection with Wm James, he has remained rather in the margin of my impressions.
Yours very truly
G Santayana
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928-1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Unknown.