To John Hall Wheelock
Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, 6
Rome. November 5, 1948
From my young friend Lyon, of Austin Texas, who has received the set kindly sent by you of the Triton Edition, I hear the following: “A friend asked me: ‘Will you cut the pages? The books will be much more valuable if you don’t, you know’. He is now an acquaintance.”
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Eight, 1948-1952. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collection, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ